Hi everybody, First of all I apologize for posting this question here. I posted on the fedora-list but obtained no satisfactory answer. :-( I'll try not to repeat that. I'm using kernel 2.6.10-1.770_FC3 hotplug-2004_04_01-8.1 hal-0.4.7-1.FC3 The thing is when I plug an external harddisk on my laptop, Gnome sets the mount points at /media/whatever and mounts the drives. Icons even pop-up on the desktop. But when i try to view it as a normal user (click on the drive icons), it says I don't have the correct permission. I realize that i can only read the external drive mountpoint ONLY as ROOT! When i do an ls /media/whatever as a normal user, I get access denied. How to enable Gnome or fstab-sync to mount the drive so that a normal user can read it? This is silly that I have to become super user to see my Gnome-mounted drives! When I set user permissions in fstab, it just stays there for a while and are overwritten when I plug out and in again my external USB harddisk. Thanks for any insight. I hope in FC4, users would be able to just plug-in their harddrive and read it on the spot. ;-) -- Cheers, Didier. ------------ Didier F.B Casse | PhD candidate | LiMiNT Beamline Singapore Synchrotron Light Source (SSLS), 5 Research Link, Singapore 117603 Email: elprodigioREMOVE_THIS_ANTISPAM_MOJO@xxxxxxxxx| Web: http://ssls.nus.edu.sg | GPG Key 1024D/B3C57D01 2004-06-23