The next thing i would like to add to my system is to be able to auto mount say a usb memory stick or external hard drive.
is this easily achieved?

thnks

rj

KDE and GNOME both have the ability to auto-mount volumes provided that you have the DBUS and HAL daemons running.

hotplugging

i have gone down the autofs route.

now..

when I cd /mnt/usb1.(my mount point.)

It auto mounts the usb drive ok.I can read and write to files ,however I can't execute a program that I have written there.

I my auto.misc file looks like this

usb1 -fstype=vfat,rw,users,exec,umask=002 :/dev/sda1.

I used this config on my laptop and it worked fine,but i dosn't work on my pc.

my laptop runs 2.4.26 where as my p.c runs 2.6.15.

my lap top uses autofs where as the pc uses autofs4

is this where the difference lies ??
if so How do I resolve?

thnks rj

4get it..

changed the mount options to default.

seems to have resolved it.