I want to be able to mount my cdrom without being root, and also I am still having trouble reading my ntfs volume as non root. Here is what my fstab is

/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hdb2 /NTFS-D ntfs ro 1 0

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,ro 1 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,user 1 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0


what exactly do i change?

/dev/hdb2 /NTFS-D ntfs users,ro,umask=0000 1 0

Any doubt type: man fstab

great, I can now get into the NTFS-D folder, but no files are showing! There are files there, and nothing is set as being hidden, but when I open the folder, there is nothing there, ! what now?

Post your fstab with the changes done.

ok, well i quickly figured out what was wrong, and fixed the NTFS issue, but im still wondering how i can mount my cdroms without having to be root. here is what i have. ps, sorry about the formatting, mozilla doesn't seem to like to format the results correctly when i post

/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hdb2 /NTFS-D ntfs users,ro,umask=0000 1 0
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,users,ro,umask=0000 0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,users,ro,umask=0000 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,users,ro,umask=0000 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

that's right

On your cdrom. Do you have scsi simulation set in your lilo? If not I like your original fstab for the cdrom better than this last one. But I don't have the s on users... only user. Do you have /mnt/cdrom as a created directory. You still have to type mount /mnt/cdrom.

no, i don't have scsi emulation set in lilo , plus i wouldn't need it, all i have are ide drivers. no scsi

oh, and yes i do have /mnt/cdrom

root@yoritomo:/# cd ..
root@yoritomo:/# cd mnt
root@yoritomo:/mnt# cd cdrom
root@yoritomo:/mnt/cdrom#
root@yoritomo:/mnt/cdrom# mount -r /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom
root@yoritomo:/mnt/cdrom# ls
Chrono TriggerOST Chrono TriggerOST - Disc II.m3u Doom Music Gackt - Moon Ikaruga
Chrono TriggerOST - Disc I.m3u Chrono TriggerOST - Disc III.m3u Elemental Gearbolt Gackt - Moon.m3u

see, i can do that as su, but i want to do the same exact thing, without having to su all the time

Well, everything seems fine, you should be able to mount as user, the other thing i could suggest but it shouldn't be necessary is to add your users to the group called "cdrom".
Try to double-check your fstab for any error, it should work as you pasted here.

Also try putting user instead of users i know it's better to use users but user always worked fine for me, just in case :P

heloo this is vignan new to linux....

I have changed the etc/fstab file to mount automatically, the directory which i have shared with NFS Server.

but in the formate of the fstab file i have given 0 0 for last two options.

and thats all now the problem is the system is not booting and giving message that

Failed to check file system,do you want to reapair