Quote Originally Posted by turbine
Let me see if I understand your question. You're running Knoppix 5.1 from the live cd. None of your disk partitions are mounted. Yet users on another machine are able to read your disks. You want to know how this is possible. Is that your question?
One possibility is that Samba could be running. I've noticed that Samba can expose your partitions even though you don't have them mounted locally.