Try something similar to what I use for my floppy which allows users to
mount/read/write (on my Debian systems anywhy)

# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>                       <dump>  

/dev/fd0        /floppy         auto    defaults,user,noauto            0       


On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:39:49 Steven downing wrote:
> Morning all, 
> Unfortunately it's time for me to ask another 'slap your forehead'
> newbie question.
> When I mount one of my windows partitions at boot time it is always
> owned by root, and no other users can get write permission to any of
> the windows partitions/directories.  Perusal of man fstab convinced me
> to try different things with UID, GID and UMASK, but none of them seem
> to work. I tried these out on the mp3 partition first...
> Relevant snippets follow:
> (fstab)
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/DOS vfat rw,user,noexec                 0      
> 0/dev/hdb3 /usr/local/mp3 vfat rw,noexec,suid,UID=1000,GID=101,UMASK=002
>         0       0(ls on a directory under /usr/local/mp3)drwxr-xr-x   
> 2 root     root         4096 Jan 25 07:34 .drwxr-xr-x   15 root    
> root        16384 Jan  1  1970 ..-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        
> 1163 Nov 27 03:14 Kruder & Dorfmiester - Disc 1.m3u-rw-r--r--    1
> root     root         1126 Nov 27 03:15 Kruder & Dorfmiester - Disc
> 2.m3u-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1944 Nov 27 03:14 Stereo
> MC's.m3u-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1545 Jan 20 02:01
> Thievery Corp - the mirror conspiracy.m3u-rw-r--r--    1 root     root
>         1810 Nov 27 03:13 Thievery Corp..m3uUID=1000 is my user (i'm
> the only one on this box)GID = 101 is an mp3 group.  I found out later
> I could/should have just used the group 'users'.
> Debian Potato.
> 
> Pointers, URLs, happily accepted....
> TIA
> 
> Steve
> 
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> new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny..."' - Isaac
> Asimov
> 
> 
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      Craige.


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