[SWLUG] Mandrake 9.1, cannot mount

[STEPHEN CONSTANTINOU]

Dear All

I have recently upgraded from mandrake 8.2 
to 9.1.

I have set up Mandrake to automatically log
me into KDE as a user.  There is only one user
(stephanos) and Root.  

The user desktop contains two Icons for 
mounting the floppy and CDROM, placed there
at installation, not by  me.  When I try to
mount the floppy I get the message:
   "Could not enter dir /mnt/floppy"
When I try to mount a CDRom I just get an 
empty Konqueror window. 
I can use Konqueror to view/copy/move files
to and from the windows hard drive/partition.
Though no icon is present on the desktop.

While still as a user I tried to mount the 
drives in a terminal window:
  mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
This brings a message: "only root can do that"

  mount -t ext2 /dev/floppy /mnt/floppy 
This brings a message: "only root can do that"

  mount -t msdos /dev/floppy /mnt/floppy 
This brings a message: "only root can do that"

Lucky old Root.

Undetered I logged in as Root I had a look at 
the permissions for the windows partition:
Class    Show    Write    Enter
         Entries Entries 
USer      X       X         X
Group     X       X         X
Others    X       X         X
User:  root
Group: root

And also for the floppy
Class    Show    Write    Enter
         Entries Entries 
USer      X       X         X
Group     X       X         X
Others    X       X         X
User:  root
Group: root

The cdrom is similar but not the same
Class    Show    Write    Enter
         Entries Entries 
USer      X       X         X
Group     X                 X
Others    X                 X
User:  root
Group: root

I thought and hoped it was just a question 
of changing permission but I am at the end
of my knowledge here.

I have checked the (printed) manual and 
it does not say anything about mounting 
file systems.  I cannot find anything in
the KDE help files, nor in the Mandrake
How Tos.

I am hoping to attend Saturday (tommorrow) 
at Cardiff to show Win4Lin, USB printing
and scanning with Mandrake 9.1. 

Any help appreciated

Stephen (Swansea, Wales, UK)
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