Chapter 12. Panel Applets
computer to mount it in order to use that disk.
The Drive Mount Applet allows you or your systems administrator to
mount a drive on your system by simply clicking the icon on your
Panel. In order for this to work you will to have to set the drive you
want to access as user mountable.
This can be done quite easily if you have linuxconf installed on your
machine. Just select the drive you want to access in the Access local
drive section. In the Options tab select the User Mountable option.
Your drive will now be mountable by users.
If you do not have linuxconf you must edit your /etc/fstab to include
user access. This is done by adding user access to the drive. For
Example:
If your fstab file looks like this:
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 exec,dev,ro,noauto 0 0
Add "user" to the fourth column:
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,exec,dev,ro,noauto 0 0
Now that you can mount the drive without being root you may add the
Drive Mount Applet to your panel by selecting Drive Mount from the
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