john wrote:
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>   Hey gang,
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>   I finally got all my drives (CD-ROM,floppy and zip) mountable and
> umountable, I can even read/write to my floppy now and see what's on a CD if
> I click on the icon. The only obstacle left is the zip icon. If I click on
> it, konquerer pops up, but it reads that it can't get into the directory (the
> CD-ROM was the same)...fine, I go into Linuxconf and try to fix 'em up. Now
> the CD-ROM is fine, yet I still can't get into the zip (/mnt/zip) directory.
> Is there some kind of permission somewhere I'm missing? I gave my user a
> 'lot' of permissions (not enough to give up any security really), I've got
> 'user' in fstab and even went to the 'properties of /mnt/zip and tried
> that...still it won't let me into the directory.
>   If I can finally get this last little problem solved, I will be extremely
> pleased. This is the one thing that has plagued me since the first time I
> installed Linux 3 or 4 months ago. I like to save 'stuff' and I have all
> these zip disks, so I might as use half of them for my Winblows junk and the
> other half of them for my Linux junk.
>   Thanks to everyone who helps out on this list...you're a great bunch of
> folk!
> 
>   John
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> Free from M$'s evil monopoly and gov't. prying...using Linux and GnuPG
> Registered Linux user #214117
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John

Log in as root and add user as shown below to the file: /etc/fstab

 /mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount fs=vfat,user,dev=/dev/zip 0 0

Save your changes.


Roman
Registered Linux User #179293
"su is not the root of your problem
    but the start of a new journey"

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