Hi Sam I've been working through this one for a while as well
I don't have a definitive answer but what seems to work on my machine is that if you have the "user mount" option on the drive checked you can mount, read, write whatever without problems (on a partition/drive) (eg./dev/hda5) however if the drive is mounted by "root" you have to be root to unmount, write to the partition/drive (eg./dev/hda7, /dev/hda6 & /dev/hda1) I have previously tried the unmask options without much success & tried chmod on files/directories but the partition/drive which didn't seem to work here are excerpts from my fstab file: /dev/hdb7 /mnt/home_2 ext3 user,dev,suid,exec 1 2 /dev/hda6 /mnt/linuxbackup ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat user,iocharset=iso8859-15,dev,codepage=850,suid,noauto,exec 0 0 Maybe someone on the list can clarify, why this is better?? -- cheers................dave Mail to: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ____________________________________________ Kmail - KDE Desktop 3.1.4 Linux Mandrake release 9.1 (Bamboo) for i586 Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk i686 / tty4 ____________________________________________
