OK, how do I set up my box to allow a user to access the /mnt file system and to the drives? I do have my computer set to high security, but I need to access cdrom's and such, and my user cant even enter the /mnt folder.

What's your permissions on the /mnt directory and the devices in the /dev directory ? Also if you have them automount from your /etc/fstab, what's it look like ?

Well trickster, the owner is root, with group being adm.

My etc/fstab is below:
/dev/hde5 / reiserfs notail 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hde8 /home reiserfs notail 1 2
/dev/hdf1 /mnt/Archive vfat user,exec,dev,suid,ro,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hdg /mnt/cdrom auto user,exec,nodev,nosuid,ro,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,exec,nodev,nosuid,ro,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,exec,nodev,nosuid,rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hde7 /usr reiserfs notail 1 2
/dev/hde6 swap swap defaults 0 0


Hope this helps. I know I am simply missing something, but for the life of my I jsut dont see any reason why I am having issues.

It's not just simple permissions is it? I mean the user is a member of the adm group? and the dir permissions are something like drwxr-x--- ?

It is definately a permissions thing, because /root has full access and users do not.

I need to mount everything with read permission, but not write or execute. That way no one can install programs or overwrite on my data drive.

Try this:

chmod 1777 /mnt

HTH,

vfs.