I finally got my fstab working, i can now view NTFS and mount my cdrom/cdrw drives as non root, but each time i mount it, i get a warning: [mntent]: warning: no final newline at the end of /etc/fstab .. what the hell is that all about, I have been racking my brain and looked back at my fstab, and I just don't see it, any ideas? here is my fstab

/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda1 /NTFS-C ntfs ro 1 0
/dev/hda1 /NTFS-C ntfs users,ro,umask=0000 1 0
/dev/hdc /mnt/dvdrom iso9660 ro,users 0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrw iso9660 rw,users 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

try put a blank line at the end of your fstab

cool, it worked, thanks ............weird solution though :-P