I have found that you will have to add yoursel to the group defs 
file for that device. I had that problem with a number of "user devices"
in mandrake 7.2 (sound, scanner, etc.). that was my solution and it 
appears to be a good one so far.

Technomage Hawke

> Will Johnson wrote:
> 
> I am having trouble accessing my zip drive in man 8.0. The permission
> appear to be setup correctly, but I keep getting an error message
> saying that I do not have permission to access the drive. There is a
> similiar problem accessing the cd rom from the desktop icon though I
> can access it from the control panel. Any ideas on what is happening?

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