Lexar 256MB Jumpdrive working but need help

I have a Lexar 256 MB jumpdrive [USB] and got it semi-working in my ver. 3.7 KNOPPIX on laptop. I can only access the drive through the Konsole. I cannot get to it from Konqueror, and if I try I get "Acess denied" message! Even if I try doing "chmod -R 777 /mnt/usb" or "chown bob /mnt/usb" it still will not let me access the drive from Konqueror, only Konsole! If I try to chown, it still says it wont let me change ownership!!! Whatsup??? If I try to log on at logon screen at bootup , I have 2 choices I made when I installed, the 2 choices are "bob" and "root" and if I try to log on as "root" a message box comes up saying "root logins not allowed!" I never remember that happening before with earlier versions.
Could it be the entry in /etc/fstab that is prohibiting me from accessing drive from Konqueror? Please help! bob

What's your line in fstab, something like this?
/dev/uba1 /pen vfat noauto,users,exec,noatime,umask=000 0 0

And the mountpoint:
markus@mrk-fujibox:~$ ll -d /pen
drwxrwx--- 2 root users 4096 Feb 28 16:35 /pen

Also check this:
markus@mrk-fujibox:~$ la /pen
total 8
drwxrwx--- 2 root users 4096 Feb 28 16:35 .
drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 4096 Mar 5 17:37 ..

Try changing the permissions when the stick is unmounted.

The root login thingy in kdm is for security reasons as you shouldn't log into kde as root.

Hi Markus....I was able to do:

chown bob /dev/usb
Chmod -R 777 /dev/usb and this time NO ERRORS came up. I did this with the USB DRIVE NOT CONNECTED.

Here is my fstab:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb auto rw,user,noauto 00

However I still get "ACCESS DENIED" when i go into Konqueror andtry to get into /dev/usb

The mount point is /mnt/usb Thats the instructions that I got off the web. It said to make a mount point in /mnt and call it usb. Then edit /etc/fstab like above.

If I do the following: ll -d /mnt/usb I get: drwxr--r-- 10 root root 16384 Dec 31 1969 /mnt/usb

If I do the following: la /mnt/usb I get:

total 104
drwxr--r-- 10 root root 16384 Dec 31 1969 .
drwxr--xr-x 7 root root 4096 Mar 8 09:01 ..
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 85 Oct 7 11:47 Autorun.inf
drwxr--r-- 5 root root 4096 Feb 6 21:31 JDSecuredrwxr--r-- 11 root root 4096 Feb 6 21:37 Photos
drwxr--r-- 3 root root 4096 Mar 3 06:49 Program Files
drwxr--r-- 5 root root 8192 Feb 6 22:33 Recycled
drwxr--r-- 8 root root 4096 Feb 6 21:31 System Volume Information
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 44544 Mar 1 21:17 Thumbs.db
drwxr--r-- 12 root root 4096 Mar 1 21:19 bob_cd
drwxr--r-- 20 root root 4096 Feb 27 11:46 mainpics
drwxr--r-- 13 root root 4096 Feb 7 06:44 work

That looks like the contents of the drive, cause I see my folders.......and I notice the double "root root" in there which looks like the permissions were not changed.....What can you make of this? Why would I be restricted access to this drive ONLY WHEN USING KONQUEROR and not the Konsole???? Please help!!!! bob

Change the line in fstab from this:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb auto rw,user,noauto 00
to this:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb auto rw,users,noauto,noatime,umask=000 0 0
note also the space between the zeros at the end
noatime will prolong your sticks life a bit since access time is not written
umask=000 will give users access to it

Unmount the usb stick and do:
su
chgrp users /mnt/usb
cd /mnt/usb
chgrp users .
chmod 770 .

Quote:

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However I still get "ACCESS DENIED" when i go into Konqueror andtry to get into /dev/usb

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Not sure if that's a typo but you should browse to /mnt/usb instead.
If it doesn't work post the output of "ll -d /mnt/usb" when the stick is unmounted.

OK Markus, I did as you suggested....restarted computer....here is the unmounted "ll -d" results:

drwxrwx--- 2 bob users 4096 Mar 6 21:56 /mnt/usb

And here we go........ :lol: :lol:

It's WORKING! Great! I guess that did the trick.........I am now able to access files in Konsole and Konqueror.
Thank you so much for your patience and time! I saved these procedures in case I need to do this again.....bob

You're welcome.