Various questions

[CrashedAgain]

Filesystem permissions: edit /etc/fstab

Added the following or edit your existing lines:
for your window C drive:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 vfat auto,users,exec,umask=022 0 0
instead of 'vfat' you will probably have NTFS so put 'ntfs' instead. Or you could enter 'auto' & Linux is supposed to be able to autodetect the FS.
'auto' in the about means automatically mount the FS at boot.
'umask' is the permissions. '022' is read only, normally you do not want to write to your C drive especially if it's NTFS

for a different windows drive:
/dev/hda6 /mnt/hda6 vfat auto,users,exec,umask=000 0 0
Here the umask gives read& write permissions.

You will also have to add the following line to get your usb connections to work.

none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0

If you have installed 'Knoppix mode', Knoppix will reset your filesystem mounts to default values with each boot up, so you may have to add a script to undo what it has done. (Or use 'Debian mode' install)

[kellinjar]

Windows and knoppix aren't on the same machine..2 different boxes..
the knoppix box is using reiserfs for hda5 and ext3 for hda7 ( I would like to know how to change hda7 to reiserfs though)

[windos_no_thanks]

the knoppix box is using reiserfs for hda5 and ext3 for hda7 ( I would like to know how to change hda7 to reiserfs though)

Copy all stuff you want to save from hda7 somewhere else and turn off any services that might be using it then do:

umount /dev/hda7
mkreiserfs /dev/hda7

Then edit the line for hda7 in /etc/fstab (if you have a line for it there), replace ext3 with reiserfs.
After that you should be able to mount it again.

[kellinjar]

well hda7 is empty right now. The user has no permission to write to it.
And no permission to write to hda5 (that contains root, etc)
I'll go into root though and make those changes (for the file system, and see if I can figure out that permission so the user can save and edit stuff now)
Now that I can see the XP box though via smb:// in konqueror I still need to set up the network printer (knoppix box will get the printer from xp)
I'll scroll back though see if I can't find the directions for that htouhg

[kellinjar]

mmkay I went to root changed permissions the user can now write to hda7 (and its reiserfs) and I believe write to the etc directory
So i'm back to the Printer problem
I had tried to set up it upyesterday as a CUPS printer.
This didn't work
WHen I try to goto knopppix configure - printer I get:
configure printers window with spinning hourglass...some 20 seconds later I get 'unable to starts cups server' hit okay and the window closes and thats it.
and I still can't get the root shell to open in the users account. It was before but since I went to root and made changes and came back, it just opens quickly and closes.

[Stephen]

mmkay I went to root changed permissions the user can now write to hda7 (and its reiserfs) and I believe write to the etc directory
So i'm back to the Printer problem
I had tried to set up it upyesterday as a CUPS printer.
This didn't work
WHen I try to goto knopppix configure - printer I get:
configure printers window with spinning hourglass...some 20 seconds later I get 'unable to starts cups server' hit okay and the window closes and thats it.
and I still can't get the root shell to open in the users account. It was before but since I went to root and made changes and came back, it just opens quickly and closes.

Try /etc/init.d/cupsys start as root then configure and you may want to go to http://www.linuxprinting.org and check on the support for your printer and see the instructions for setting it up with cups.