Phil Schaffner wrote:
On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 11:10 +0900, Dave Gutteridge wrote:
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So where I'm at now is that I can mount the drive from the command line 
like so:
[root@localhost ~]# mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows
... but only the root user can see it.

I want to be able to make it so that any user (which is almost always 
me, but sometimes I'm root, sometimes I'm just a user with the account 
"dave") can access the drive, and that it comes up in Gnome/Nautilus on 
boot.

Here is what I currently have in /etc/fstab:
/dev/hda1               /mnt/windows            vfat    
rw,uid=512,gid=1002 0 0
    

Looks like you didn't read my original message thoroughly...

On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 11:55 -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote:
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Try:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat rw,noauto,user,uid=512,gid=1002 1 2

Adjust uid and gid for the user you want to have full access
(see /etc/passwd entry), or omit for read-all write-root.  [Be
sure /mnt/windows exists.]
    

uid=512 and gid=1002 are almost certainly not those for user "dave"
in /etc/passwd - more likely 500:500 as a guess.  [And yes, 0 0 at the
end, not 1 2 unless you want to be assaulted again by ALPHA dosfsck.]

$ grep prs /etc/passwd
prs:x:512:1002:Phil Schaffner:/home/prs:/bin/bash

See what "grep dave /etc/passwd" returns and fix up /etc/fstab
accordingly.

Phil
  

Could try:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat rw,noauto,users 0 0

if you want it accessible for all users ....

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