Re: problem with mount applet

[Ben Frantzdale <frantzdb admin arhs net>]

Read the documentation. I think you'll have to add "user" to the drive's
/etc/fstab entry (and then reboot?)

--Ben

On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Georges-Henry PORTEFAIT wrote:

> Greetings to all,
> 
> when I try to mount the CDROM using the applet, I have a dialog saying :
> 
> drivemount command failed " mount /mnt/cdrom 2>&1" reported:
> mount: must be superuser to use mount .
> 
> I know that mount is a root command but what is the use of this applet
> if we cannot use it to mount discs !?!
> 
> Any help/clue/tip will be greatly appreciated
> 
> regards
> 
> GH Portefait
> 
> P.S:umount is fine thanks :)
> 
> N.B
> 
> My versions number
> SUSE 6.1 on PII-400 192 Mb RAM Windowmaker 0.60.0
> GNOME versions
> 
> ORBit-0.4.3-1.i386.rpm              guile-1.3-1.i386.rpm
> control-center-1.0.5-2.i386.rpm     imlib-1.9.4-1.i386.rpm
> esound-0.2.8-2.i386.rpm             imlib-cfgeditor-1.9.4-1.i386.rpm
> glibn-1.2.3-1.i386.rpm              libPropList-0.8.3-1.i386.rpm
> gmc-4.5.33-1.i386.rpm               libaudiofile-0.1.6-1.i386.rpm
> gnome-core-1.0.6-1.i386.rpm         libghttp-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm
> gnome-games-1.0.2-1.i386.rpm        libgtop-1.1.0-2.i386.rpm
> gnome-libs-1.0.10-1.i386.rpm        libpng-2.1.0.3-1.i386.rpm
> gnome-objc-1.0.2-1.i386.rpm         libxml-1.1.0-1.i386.rpm
> gnome-users-guide-1.0.5-1.i386.rpm  mc-4.5.33-1.i386.rpm
> gtkn-1.2.3-1.i386.rpm               xscreensaver-3.07-1.i386.rpm
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