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Julian Hall wrote: > Hi guys, > > Hopefully this will be a simple one :) > > I have an 80Gb USB drive attached to a USB port on my router for NAS > purposes. This works fine in Winblows (ick) but the problems come in > Linux. I can only mount the drive as root. When I start X as root I > see the message 'reconnecting Network drives' as I'd expect and it comes > up as mounted in /disks/H which is where I want it. When I try to mount > it as my normal user julian it says I don't have permission, which > *should* be a piece of cake to fix. I've checked the chmod and for all > the drives it is drwxrwxrwx. It is a FAT32 drive so there should be no > issues with whether this flavour of Linux (Xandros 3.02) will RW to it. > > I *can* access the drive as a normal user, but it means ploughing > through Windows Network -> TARTARUS -> ORACLE -> ARAGORN which is a pain > in the bum. It would be *much* nicer to have it automount under a > shortcut as the other internal drives do. > > Kind regards, > > Julian > Sounds to me like it's shared with Samba? You should be able to modify your fstab and add the samba share, going on memory it would be something like... //server/share /disks/H smbfs username=deviceusername,password=devicepassword 0 0 Can't remember if auto needs to be added. You will need to install the smbfs package (assuming you're running Debian/Ubuntu), not sure what it's called in Fedora. Hopefully this should give you something to go on anyway. There's probably more elegant ways of doing it, but this is how I did it on my kid's PC to mount shares on my server (from memory). Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html