On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 18:22, Lorenzo Prince wrote: > HELP! I am having a problem trying to allow a user to save to the floppy drive in > Gnome. I was already logged into the > machine (RH9), and the other user couldn't mount the drive, as I owned the device. > So I edited /etc/fstab and changed > the "owner" option on the floppy to "user" and the other user was then allowed to > mount the drive. However, once the > drive was mounted by the other user, files could not be saved to it. Checking the > directory listing showed that the > floppy mount point was owned by the user who mounted it and that the user had write > permission as well as access > permission for the mount point. It also showed write permission for all files that > were already on the floppy disk. > However we got an error message stating that the floppy mount point was write > protected whenever the user who mounted it > tried to save a file on it. This problem occurred both in AbiWord and one other > prog, but I don't remember which one > was used. Also, it seems that AbiWord also refused to save the file to the user's > home directory, but the other program > did allow us to save the file in the home dir. Can someone tell me where the > problem may be and how I can fix it? > > Thanks, > Lorenzo Prince > happy Shrike user ;) >
Use the "rw" option at the floppy mount options in the /etc/fstab file. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
