Re: Allowing users to mount external drive/thumbdrive

2008-03-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 06:49:54PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 06:32:18PM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > > Chris Henry wrote: > > >Hi, > > >I've just reinstalled a windows computer with debian today. While I > > >can add an entry to fstab to allow user to be able to

Re: Allowing users to mount external drive/thumbdrive

2008-03-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 06:32:18PM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Chris Henry wrote: > >Hi, > >I've just reinstalled a windows computer with debian today. While I > >can add an entry to fstab to allow user to be able to mount an > >external drive, it won't allow flexible usage of external > >dri

Re: Allowing users to mount external drive/thumbdrive

2008-03-15 Thread Chris Henry
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Henry wrote: > > Hi, > > I've just reinstalled a windows computer with debian today. While I > > can add an entry to fstab to allow user to be able to mount an > > external drive, it won't allow flexible usage

Re: Allowing users to mount external drive/thumbdrive

2008-03-15 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Chris Henry wrote: Hi, I've just reinstalled a windows computer with debian today. While I can add an entry to fstab to allow user to be able to mount an external drive, it won't allow flexible usage of external drive/thumbdrive. If you are using a recent enough version of debian (etch or late

Re: Allowing users to mount external drive/thumbdrive

2008-03-15 Thread Chris Henry
Clarification below: On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Chris Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I've just reinstalled a windows computer with debian today. While I > can add an entry to fstab to allow user to be able to mount an > external drive, it won't allow flexible usage of external >

Allowing users to mount external drive/thumbdrive

2008-03-15 Thread Chris Henry
Hi, I've just reinstalled a windows computer with debian today. While I can add an entry to fstab to allow user to be able to mount an external drive, it won't allow flexible usage of external drive/thumbdrive. I realized that Ubuntu allows users to plug just about anything and have it automaticall