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Widows partition and usb devices not usable by users!

Hi. I'm running Lindows Laptop Edition 4.5.280. I know what you're going to say about Lindows, well it's the only thing that likes this laptop.

Anyhow, non root users are unable to access the windowsXP partition(/dev/hda1 mounted on /disks/winxp) or any usb device I plug into the computer. Root, or sudo'ing works fine to access these, but I'd like normal users to have access too.

I already killed jiffyboot(the program that overwrites lilo.conf and fstab on each reboot) to help make this work. What do I need to do to view these as a normal user. Below are the windows partition and usb lines from my fstab file:

Code:

/dev/hda1      /disks/winxp  ntfs  defaults                    0  2



none            /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults                    0  0

Take an example on the floppy disk....and modify your fstab file....

get rid of the option "defaults" and replace it with:
auto,user,umask=000