On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hi All,
> I had to shutdown my linux box so I could boot it win95 to use a
> cardreader. Since I rebooted users are no longer able to mount
> the zip drives. It samba use to mount them when you tried to
> open the file  here are is the line from fstab
> /dev/hdb4 /mnt/zip vfat user,noauto 00
> the lines from smb.conf
> [zipdrive]
> path = /mnt/zip
> writable = yes
> preexec = /usr/local/lbin/General/ZipDos
> postexec = /usr/local/lbin/General/CloseZip
>
> /usr/local/lbin/General/ZipDos does the following
> mount -t vfat /dev/hdb4 /mnt/zip
>
Shouldn't this be just "mount /mnt/zip"?

At least of my setup, if you specify the device to the mount command, it
doesn't check /etc/fstab, so I get an error if I try it as a normal
user, but specifing just the mount point works if it is in /etc/fstab,
and specified as user mountable.
>
> This worked perfect before I shutdown and rebooted. Did I do
> something else to allow users to mont the dos zipdrives that
> I forgot?
>               Thanks
>                Linda Hanigan
>
>



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