> 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
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