Three Questions from a Linux Virgin

Gertjan Vinkesteijn fedora.1.90 at xs4all.nl
Wed Mar 3 03:45:52 UTC 2004


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?
>
>Q2) What's the command to change file and directory
>permissions recursively down through a directory tree.
>
>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?
>
>SR
>
>
>  
>
The answer is simple, you can change the directory /mnt/removable when 
it is not mounted, not when it is mounted, why? Don't ask me...





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