Re: Floppy problems
--- Randy Donohoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got everything in Mandrake 8.1 set up just the way I want it with one exception. I can get my floppy to mount, read, and write in root, but nada in my user account. I'm running the 2.4.8 kernel and KDE 2.2.1. I've added floppy to my group in the KDE control panel. This seems like a permissions problem, but I can't find it. You guys that are dying to tell me get rid of 2.2.1, give me a break this time, I'm almost whipped. Any ideas? This is a permissions problem, but not in the way you think, and has nothing to do with KDE. It is solely related to /etc/fstab, and the entry for your floppy drive. The 4th column has all the permissions controls, and you will need to add the comma separated entry of 'user' to allow mortal users the right to mount floppies. = Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux FAQ Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com . __ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Floppy problems
This is a permissions problem, but not in the way you think, and has nothing to do with KDE. It is solely related to /etc/fstab, and the entry for your floppy drive. The 4th column has all the permissions controls, and you will need to add the comma separated entry of 'user' to allow mortal users the right to mount floppies. = Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/hda7 / reiserfs notail 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home reiserfs notail 1 2 /dev/hdb/mnt/cdrom auto iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,ro,nosuid,noauto,user,nodev,codepage=850,exec 0 0 /dev/fd0/mnt/floppy auto iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,nosuid,exec,user,noauto,codepage=850,nodev,unhide 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 Above is a copy of my fstab and it has a user in the floppy column. Does everything else look OK? Could it be something to do with Reiserfs? Would my mtab be at fault? Below is a copy. /dev/hda7 / reiserfs rw,notail 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 devfs /dev devfs rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home reiserfs rw,notail 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 Thanks Lonni, appreciate the time. Randy Donohoe ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Floppy problems
--- Randy Donohoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /dev/hda7 / reiserfs notail 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home reiserfs notail 1 2 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom auto iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,ro,nosuid,noauto,user,nodev,codepage=850,exec 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,nosuid,exec,user,noauto,codepage=850,nodev,unhide 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 Above is a copy of my fstab and it has a user in the floppy column. Does everything else look OK? Could it be something to do with Reiserfs? Would my mtab be at fault? Below is a copy. Neither Reiser nor mtab are at fault. THe automount daemon is, and as a result all bets are off. Nix all the 'auto' entries and replace them with a sane filesystem type, and that should resolve this issue. IMO, amd should be used for NFS and nothing else. Its only other purpose is to confuse newbies, and to frustrate experts. = Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux FAQ Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com . __ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Floppy problems
Neither Reiser nor mtab are at fault. THe automount daemon is, and as a result all bets are off. Nix all the 'auto' entries and replace them with a sane filesystem type, and that should resolve this issue. IMO, amd should be used for NFS and nothing else. Its only other purpose is to confuse newbies, and to frustrate experts. = Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'll give it a try, thanks. Randy Donohoe ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Floppy problems
how about adding users to the fsrab entry for /dev/fd0? BTW, love KDE 2.2.1 stayler On Sat, 3 Nov 2001 16:19:50 -0500, Randy Donohoe wrote: I've got everything in Mandrake 8.1 set up just the way I want it with one exception. I can get my floppy to mount, read, and write in root, but nada in my user account. I'm running the 2.4.8 kernel and KDE 2.2.1. I've added floppy to my group in the KDE control panel. This seems like a permissions problem, but I can't find it. You guys that are dying to tell me get rid of 2.2.1, give me a break this time, I'm almost whipped. Any ideas? ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
