Three Questions from a Linux Virgin

[Patrick May]

On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 11:16:40AM +1050, sreynolds at internode.on.net wrote:
> Yesterday I installed Fedora on a stand-alone machine at
> home.
> 
> Q1) When I mount my USB flash drive I can only write to the
> drive as root. I logged in as root and tried to change
> permissions for all users to RWE (777?), but I get a message
> that says that I don't have permission to change permissions
> on the flash drive. I thought root was god, so my wild guess
> is that there is something wrong with my entry for sda1 in
> fstab:
> 
> /dev/sda1  /mnt/removable  auto  auto,user,rw  0 0
> 
> Is there something wrong with this entry?

Looks ok to my blind eye. I'll defer that to someone else.

> 
> Q2) What's the command to change file and directory
> permissions recursively down through a directory tree.

chmod -R [permissions] [directory]

> Q3) I have a reasonably new Canon LBP-810 laser printer that
> I can't print to because Fedora doesn't have print drivers
> for this printer. I've googled for printer drivers, but
> can't find any. I've googled the problem and it seems Linux
> cannot support this printer. The only solution that I can
> find is to run a widows printer server and print through
> that. This isn't a solution for a single stand-alone machine
> at home and of course I don't want to network two machines
> and run two machines just so that I can print.
> 
> Is there a solution or has my printer denied me access to
> the wonderful world of Linux?

No clue there.

One out of three isn't THAT bad. Good enough in baseball.

Patrick