[LUAU] zip drive and accessing home

[Ben Beeson]

Richard,

     Most likely your problem is one of two things.  Either the
permissions for the drive device are for root instead of a user, or the
default mounting options do not allow a user to unmount the drive. 

To check the device permissions type ls -l /dev/zipdrivedevicename 
and see what comes back.  The example below is for the cdrom drive on my
box, but the principle is the same.  Note that the group is "users" for
this example.  That means anyone that is a member of the group "users"
can access the CDROM drive.  That config works well on my Fedora Core 2
box as all unix accounts belong to the group "users" here and I am not
worried about the physical security of my cdrom drive.  this may not be
appropriate for all cases (Your mileage may vary).  
 

[ben at valinux ben]$ ls -l /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root users 8 Sep 12 15:04 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hda


Mounting options are a little different.  My /etc/fstab file has an
entry like this for the cdrom drive here.  
/dev/cdrom    /mnt/cdrom     iso9660 user,unhide,noauto,kudzu,ro 0 0

Note the 'user' in the right hand list of goodies.  That tells the mount
command that ordinary users can mount and unmount the drive.  This will
be checked automatically when the user tries to mount the drive once
this instruction is in the fstab file.  This will likely fix your issue
all by itself once the fstab gets set up to allow users to mount/unmount
the drive.  To learn more about this, type 'man mount' at a shell
prompt.

Good luck,

Ben       



On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 15:00, R/M Ainsworth wrote:
> Hello I'm a Linux newbie, so I apologize in advance if my questioning isn't
> too clear. I'm using Mandrake 10.1 and I seem to have a problem when I mount
> my USB zip100 drive. When its mounted I can not access home through user
> mode while using the GUI (KDE 3.2) I have to unmount via root and then
> restart before I can. Does anyone know what could be causing this? I
> appreciate any help with this, Thanks. Richard
> 
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