Newbie Needs help with an old Linux Print server box

[diogenis]

I have this Print server Debian 2.2 that is connected to my copier. WU-FTPD Version wu-2.6.0(1) is already installed by the factory. I am trying to add a user so I can gain access to the scanned files that are located on a different partition, but I can't do it. Since the print server is a dedicated machine with no keyboard or monitor I took the Hard drive out and I installed it on a PC, but it gets stack at this screen:
boot:
LILO.............................................. ...................

Then I booted with SLAX and I tried to adduser, I got the msg that user was added successfully, but nothing shows in passwd file. I tried editing the passwd, shadow, ftpusers, ftpaccess file, but the best I could do is to FTP login as anonymously and have no access to the directory mnt/hda4/scan/jobs.
Since this server is not exposed on the internet an anonymous user who has access to the directory that I need is not a problem. Please help me edit these files so i can gain FTP access to mnt/hda4/scan/jobs.

Thanks

[zackwasa]

The best way would be to boot into a Debian livecd with the printer hdd slaved, mount the / partition of the hdd and chroot into it then run all the adduser and passwd commands.

That should work assuming that wu-ftpd is using the system accounts on the printer server

[diogenis]

I just tried using Live Debian CD. I can't even access the drive now. I get the Permission denied popup..

[zackwasa]

How are you trying to access it? What exactly are you doing and what popup are you talking about?

Please provide more details

[diogenis]

I used Debian with KDE. The windows like interface is easier for me who knows nothing about LINUX. When I tried to read the hard drive partitions of the print server I was getting the message "access denied" and a sound of breaking glass was playing.

[zackwasa]

can you check everything via the terminal? Are you able to access the drives? If you need exact commands for the terminal let me know and I will help

[diogenis]

Please do I tried using the terminal but I am not sure if I was doing something wrong or if it was because I have no root access credentials to the partition.

[zackwasa]

After you open a terminal check what user you are logged in as:
whoami

If it's not root then become root:
sudo su -
or
su - root

Use this to check if the drive is mounted:
mount

or to see which one is the drive:
fdisk -l

to mount:
mkdir /some/dir
mount /dev/devicename /some/dir

Let me know if you have any other questions

[diogenis]

I managed to create another user using the repair option of the debian LIVE cd. I can login with FTP but I can't get access to the other partition. Do you know how I can give access to hda4/scan/jobs?
Thanks

[zackwasa]

When setting up the user you will need to set its home directory to be the /scan/jobs one(assuming that hda4 is automatically mounted at /scan). After you do this you will get into that dir whenever you login via FTP to it