how do you mount a cd-rom in slack 9.1 as a regular user?....i know how to do it as root, but that gets quite annoying....having to su over all the time.....

thanks for your time....and i know the answer is something simple....lol...

rock!

you need to edit your /etc/fstab. look for the line for your cdrom, and change where it says "owner" to read "users"

i tried that, it didnt seem work....i even rebooted....lol....how do you restart that service when you change fstab?...

here id my fstab....just so you one could see it...and on the sam topic...how do i automount a windows network share?...i tried in the last line...but no love...

thanks for the quick reply!!

-derfaust

/dev/hdb3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb2 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/hdb1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb4 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hda2 /mnt/data ntfs auto,owner,umask=022 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs auto,owner,umask=022 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/programs ntfs auto,owner,umask=022 0 0
/dev/hdc1 /mnt/storage ntfs auto,owner,umask=022 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,users,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
//10.0.0.3/e /mnt/tv_e smbfs auto,users,umask=022,guest 0 0

You shouldn't need to restart any services to take affect.
Try "user" instead of "users" and see what it does.

tried but it still gripes that i, "must be superuser to mount"....i tried to change the permissions to /bin/mount...

no love....

keep the ideas a flowin....

try first checking where your /dev/cdrom actually points to by
ls -l /dev/cdrom
then edit your /etc/fstab according to that device to see it it works.
After that as root
rm /dev/cdrom and
ln -s /dev/xxx /dev/cdrom
this should re-extabilish a right link if missing
Hope this helps
Ciao

well...i just tried that as well.....still no love...

hmmmm???

i figured it would be easier than this.....lol

like my sig says.....

not sure if adding umask=000 after ro will help you, mine has it and it works, sorry, this is just blind copying without understanding on my part.

i had that problem with slack-8.1 and here is the solution i also applied in 9.0 ;

like mentioned above , find your cdrom link;
ls -l /dev/cdrom
as root ; cdrecord -scanbus tells you about your cdrom device;
mine is 0,0,0 therefore /dev/sr0 (on account of scsi emulation i think);
so i did ln -sf /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrom do not forget the space after -sf
check your link again

i also changed permissions with chmod a+rw /dev/cdrom
let us know , good luck

p.s.=my fstab entry =/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0

What's the mount command you are issuing? With the correct fstab (looked right above) and if the symlinks are correct, a simple 'mount /mnt/cdrom' should do it.

hrm...that did not do it either.....this should be an easy thing to do, yes??

is thier any more information i could give that would help??

here id my fstab again...


/dev/hdb3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb2 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/hdb1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb4 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hda2 /mnt/data ntfs auto,owner,umask=022 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs auto,owner,umask=022 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/programs ntfs auto,owner,umask=022 0 0
/dev/hdc1 /mnt/storage ntfs auto,owner,umask=022 0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
//10.0.0.3/e /mnt/tv_e smbfs auto,user,umask=022,guest 0 0
//10.0.0.3/c /mnt/tv_c smbfs auto,user,umask=022,guest 0 0
//10.0.0.3/f /mnt/tv_f smbfs auto,user,umask=022,guest 0 0


thanks....

Is the cd drive a cd/rw or dvd combo drive, if it is perhaps appending "hdd=ide-scsi" in lilo will help. I then created a cdrom icon in kde and I just click to mount. Though you still have to umount or eject.

Also changing noauto to auto should automatically mount the cd drive, though I don't know if this will be a problem without a cd in the drive.

skimming the post, excuse me if i repeat anything

first, make sure you are mounting the correct device; check output of dmesg for the device name

now, make sure that device has proper permissions; do chmod 777 /dev/hdx

what kernel version are you running? if you are using a 2.4.x kernel, add the line append hdx=ide-scsi to your lilo.conf file (somewhere near the top); if you are using 2.6.x, use append hdx=ide-cd

if you use ide-scsi, your cd drive is going to be /dev/sr0; do chmod 777 /dev/sr0; now make a symlink like so: ln -s /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrom; if using ide-cd, do ln -s /dev/hdx /dev/cdrom

do chmod 777 /dev/cdrom

do chmod 777 /mnt/cdrom

now edit your fstab and add this line
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user 0 0

now you should be able to say mount /mnt/cdrom and mount as a user

nope....none of that has worked so far....

i could stand on my head and sing, "the sound of music"....would that help?...

this is irritating....i have spent days on what should have taken about 15 minutes(if even that, regardless of the operating system)....it still does not work right....hrmmmm....hrmmmm....hrmmmm.....

please does anybody "know"?.... no guesses please!!!!!

thanks for your time...

dig

the only thing i didn't mention in my previous post was to do chmod 777 /dev/sr0 if you have ide-scsi emulation enabled

while i was definitely not making any guess in my last post, i know it was a lot of information, so i could have missed some specific command

okay, so i will need information (and will probably include lots of copying and pasting to this forum)

what kernel are you using? do uname -r to find out
do you have ide-scsi emulation enabled? check lilo.conf, and also post the dmesg lines that regard to the detection of the harddrives, cddrives, etc.
post output of file /dev/cdrom
post output of ls -l /dev/cdrom, ls -l /dev/sr0, ls -l /dev/hdx (where hdx is your cd device)
finally, post your fstab (if you have changed it from your previous fstab posting)