[frgeek-michiana] Re: Lab Notes, 05/24/05

I had a thought on this coming from audio problems I've had on Debian...

See if the floppy drives have a "group" of users allowed to access the floppy drive. The answer might be as simple as adding 'guest' to a 'floppy' group. You might have to create a 'floppy' group and 'chown root:floppy /dev/fd0' and then add guest to the floppy group. Be worth a try.

Goose


Tom Brown wrote:

:: Floppy automount

The 2.4.x kernel is configured with autofs support. In some way, VL 4.3 is using autofs to automatically mount cdrom and floppy removable media. However, when logged in as the "guest" user, the kernel fails to automount the floppy disk yet it always automounts cdroms. When logged in as root, the kernel always mounts floppy disks.

This behavior is annoying. Users would have to learn to mount and unmount floppies to take work saved on diskette to and from school or the office. We are unlikely to teach how to su to root, mount and unmount media at the FreeBox classes. I developed a work around which is not perfect, but buys us time.

Mike and I are researching the automount problem. Mike is also compiling a list of problems he and others have found with VL 4.3. Once we have identified and corrected or worked around the problems, we will post a report to Vector Linux developers and to our own web site. 

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