[SC.LUG] Back up and running

[Simeon W Farrington]

On Sunday 23 October 2005 23:22, Damian Parker wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 22:00 +0100, Simeon W Farrington wrote:
> > 'tis all good fun but at least I've got sound up and running (Wahey). I
> > do have one problem which people will know I'm sure how to answer. My
> > (not-insubstantial) music collection currently resides on a
> > ntfs-formatted partition which I can only access as root which is rather
> > unsatisfactory (just because it's a windows partition doesn't mean I have
> > to act in the windows way of do-it-all-as-root) - can someone tell me how
> > I can access this partition as a normal user?
>
> in /etc/fstab drop a line:
> /dev/hde1       /mnt/tunes      ntfs     noauto,user,ro,umask=0222 0 0
>
> then as a user
>
> mount /mnt/tunes
>
> I only mount ntfs read only and the umask makes things available to the
> user.
>
> change /dev/hde1 as required ;)

Dear Damian

That's cracking, thanks. Works a treat.

I've also found that beep-music-player has a codec plugin which will do 
non-DRM WMA files (http://wiki.debian.org/MultimediaCodecs).

Thanks

Simeon