Zip drive access in mandrake 8.0

[Clayton Stapleton]

I am also have this problem! According to a description on Tucows
"Supermount cannot only mount a file system on demand, changing
to the directory of the CD-ROM for example, it also allows you to
eject and change the media without unmounting it. The result is that
almost anyone can understand how to use a floppy or CD-ROM on
the system, and they do not need special privileges." This does not
offer any help. I tried to change the groups for the cd-rom, floppy
and the zip to users in the /mnt directory as root. It did not work, it
said there is no file or directory and would not change. The file sizes
for these are 0.
Clay Stapleton
On Wednesday 22 August 2001 05:03 am, you wrote:
> 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?