This is my config in fstab

/dev/hdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 auto,user,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto auto,user 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdg5 /mnt/multimedia vfat user,ro

For root, I need to manually mount cdrom and floppy, /dev/hdg5 is mount automatically.

However, I can't mount the cdrom, floppy drive and my hdg5 using my local user account.

Questions :

1) How do I mount them using my user account? I thought "user" is to allow user to mount?

2) Those things that I did in root, doesn't seems to be available for user. (e.g. OpenOffice, adsl-setup, firefox etc)

hi,
You have given mount options as auto that will mount automatically when you boot the system.

Give mount option as noauto to /mnt/cdrom

reboot the system.

then mount using the command
mount /mnt/cdrom

before mounting put the cd in the cd drive.

hope this helps.

yours,
nature_priyan.

This is my cdrom entry from my fstab (SuSE 8.2).

/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0

Of course, in fstab it's all on one line.

This is my new fstab file.

/dev/hdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,user 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdg5 /mnt/multimedia vfat user,ro
/dev/hdg6 /mnt/collin vfat user,ro

However, my user account still could not access any of the mounted partitions. Error message was "Access Denied".

I tried mounting cdrom and floppy drive but it said only root can do that. Tried accessing my vfat partition, it said access denied.

Did you try adding yourself to a group? I had to do that using YAST as root(I just can't remember exactly how I did it) so I could get access as a user to some filesystems. Try Security and Users, then edit and create users... Daveb