On March 31, 2003 02:11 pm, Curtis Sloan wrote:
> Update:
>
> The perms on mount are the same (rwsr-xr-x), but I still get the funky
> "Only root can do that" message.  I forgot to check the group, I will do
> that tonight.
>
> Thanks,
> Curtis.
>

Hi,

The permissions of mount seem ok.  How exactly are you trying to mount the 
partition?  If you are typing something like 'mount /dev/hdaX /mnt/win' it 
won't work unless you have the appropriate permissions on the raw /dev/ 
device (Only root can do that ;).  You should have an fstab entry similar to 
the following for your win partition: 
/dev/hdaX        /mnt/win     vfat    defaults,user,noauto            0      0

Typing 'mount /mnt/win' will cause mount to look for the appropriate device to 
mount in /etc/fstab and if it sees the user or users option, it will mount it 
for you as a regular user (if /bin/mount is setuid root, as it normally is).  
Hope this helps.

~Scott


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