Hi. I am both new in this forum and new to Linux. If you need to know which distro I'm using, it's called MEPIS, I believe it's based on Debian. Anyway, onwards with my question:

I have a problem using Wine. When I try using Wine as root, I get the following message (in WineSetup Tk):

So I did. Fine and dandy, it works like a charm.. and then I want to mount some drives. But guess what? I can't I get a message telling me that I cannot mount the drives. It says I don't have access or something. (Can't really check that now, working as root atm)

How do I let my normal user mount drives? I'm sure this question has been asked before, but the searches I did, only found sorta similar threads, but not exactly what I wonder about.. I hope somebody can help me.

EDIT: Oh yeah, one more thing. If I mount the drives with root, and then switch to a user, I still can't use the drive, as it tells me I don't have permissions for it. Which I think it weird, since there are both NTFS drives and FAT32 drives, and I can't access anyone of them -- I haven't done anything to set permissions, so I assume it's not allowed by default, and that I have to make some changes to make it work...

Yes, you have to make changes. Post here your fstab, and we'll work it out.

/etc/fstab lists devices mounted by the system and who can mount them - the default is for only root to be able to mount devices but removable devices (floppy, CDROM etc) are normally specified in fstab to allow users to mount.

Once you've created a mount point and added them to fstab you can set permissions on the mount points to allow other users to do what you want.

Hope this helps - 'man mount' tells you lots more!

Thank you.

Here goes my fstab:

EDIT: And keep in mind that the problem is not only mounting the disks... even if I mount with root and try to access them with another user, I get an error.. although then the error is that I don't have access to /mnt/hda8 or whichever partition I choose to try it on.

Well, I got partial success.. by changing the line

to

(similar to the ones I'm allowed to mount (ie the floppy) I was able to mount the drive... but I am still not allowed to access it.. I get "Has no access to file:/mnt/hda8" or something like that.

EDIT: *sigh* - On reboot the fstab file reset to what it was before I changed it.. how inconvenient is that, or what?

I think you might want to re-read the andrewdodsworth's post, particularly with respect to the permissions. The problem here is probably just that your new mountpoints (eg, /mnt/hda8) do not allow write operations to regular users.

As he indicated, "man mount" will tell you a lot more. Good luck with it -- J.W.

Hi

Try "man sudo" - apparently this is a service you can configure to give certain users root privileges to do certain things - like mount / unmount filesystems.