Re: Problems automounting CDs

[Carl Riches <riches ms washington edu>]

> >
> > Can anyone help shed light on what could be causing this behavior?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Carl G. Riches
> > Software Engineer
> > Department of Mathematics
> > Box 354350                      voice:     206-543-5082 or 206-616-3636
> > University of Washington        fax:       206-543-0397
> > Seattle, WA  98195-4350         internet:  riches ms washington edu
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> Well, the GUI that provides you the ability to address this problem is 
Linuxconf.
> To access this program you'll have to login as root or open a terminal 
window and
> change to the  root account within it, by typing 'su' and then entering the 
root
> password thereafter.  Once you are root, type 'linuxconf &'.  In linuxconf 
find,
> Config---> File systems ---> Access local drive.  When the window appears on 
the
> right click on the line concerning the CDROM.  Another dialog box appears 
with tabs
> at the top.  Click on the Options tab and viola, what shall appear is 
selections.
> One of these is permitting all users to mount the CDROM.
>   Hope this gets you rolling,
>   Art Ross
>   Chairperson of Physics
>   Sinclair Community College
> 

I'm not sure that this is what I want to do.   These settings are the same
between the two machines that are under discussion here, yet their
behavior is completely different.  One machine allows general user access
via an automount.  The other doesn't.  There _must_ be a configuration
file somewhere that addresses this other than /etc/fstab.  It appears that
the "linuxconf" program only addresses the /etc/fstab file (please let me
know if I'm wrong!)  The line in /etc/fstab that governs the behavior of
/dev/cdrom is the same between these two machines.

What could that other config file be?

Carl G. Riches
Software Engineer
Department of Mathematics
Box 354350			voice:     206-543-5082 or 206-616-3636
University of Washington	fax:       206-543-0397
Seattle, WA  98195-4350		internet:  riches ms washington edu