i had a similar issue the other day with a file server i was setting up, it was solved by specifically mounting the type of drive that i was using: mount -t vfat before the mount paths hope that helps. Noah Alfred von Campe wrote: > On Dec 4, 2006, at 13:40, Jean Figarella wrote: > >> I can't mount the cdrom when the user account has an nfs home >> directory. It works fine on the gnome side with the same user. It also >> works fine if I create a brand new local account, with no nfs mounted >> home directory. > > Can you not mount the CDROM at all or does it merely not auto-mount? I > have the latter problem, which is a little annoying at times. Doing a > "mount /media/cdrom" as root mounts the CDROM and puts it on the Desktop > of the currently logged in Gnome user. I never made the correlation > with having an NFS mounted home directory. In our environment, root can > not access (read or write) the users' home directories. > > Alfred > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >