I've setup my users they can read the win disk on hdb. Only prob is that if I log in as root the disks get mounted (that's fine) but if I logout and login as a user I have to umount the drives as root before I can mount them as user. How to fix this?

My fstab looks like:

/dev/hdb5 /mnt/windows/d vfat users,gid=1001,umask=0227 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows/c ntfs ro,users,gid=1001,umask=0277 0 0

gid=1001 is the group called windisk and users need to be in here to have access at all.

I think the fstab is fine, perhaps some 'auto umount' setting?


Any clues?

Regards

I auto mount my windows partition on my laptop as follows:

/dev/hda1 /winC ntfs defaults,user,ro,umask=002,gid=100,auto 0 0

Hope this helps.