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Access Denied to Zip Disk!

  • 30-03-2005 11:18am
    #1
    JCDenton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 394 ✭✭


    Howdy folks, I'm pretty new to this whole Linux thing and after making some good progress I'm stuck with a (seemingly simple) problem...

    I'm running Debian Linux with KDE.

    When trying to use this with an Iomega zip disk I had some problems.

    I put this into fstab when logged in as the super user
    /dev/hdb4 /mnt/zip vfat user,defaults,exec 0 0

    If I go into /mnt/zip everything is there, so no problems so far.

    When I open a Konqueror window in KDE and try to open the disk "graphically" it says "access denied to /mnt/zip"

    Using my rudimentary knowledge of these things I'm guessing that as superuser I have privilidges and as "myself" I don't.

    I took a look at the passwd file and considered changing my gid but thought I'd ask here to see if anyone knew better!

    Any help is appreciated,
    thanks in advance


Comments

  • #2
    rsynnott
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭rsynnott


    Try mounting from the user you want to access it from. Also, try adding "umask=0666" to the fstab.


  • #3
    scojones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭scojones


    The problem is that you have mouted the drive as root, but you are launching konqueror as a different user. If you launch konqueror as root you will not have any problems - or as the above poster says, mount it as the user that will be launching konqueror.


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