Trouble accessing things outside home directory

[AlexK]

Ok,
this problem is starting to get kind of irritating. In konqueror, whenever I try to access anything outside my home directory as a normal user it returns

Unable to enter file:///. You do not have access rights to this location.

I can however access anything outside the home directory in the command line or using konsole (again as normal user) conditionally. I i give the path e.g. cd /etc/samba or even ls it will go there, however if i do something like "ls /" (without quotes and as normal user), it gives Permission denied.

Root obviously has no problems like that.

I have allowed others to be able to read from the root partition as this shows:

Mercury ~ # ls -l /
total 27
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  3552 Feb  4  2006 bin
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root   184 Feb  3 12:05 boot
drwxr-xrwx   2 root root    48 Feb  2 18:42 data
drwxr-xr-x  14 root root 13100 Feb  3 16:40 dev
drwxr-xr-x  48 root root  3296 Feb  4  2006 etc
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root    96 Jan 31 19:04 home
drwxr-xr-x   9 root root  3816 Feb  3 10:44 lib
drwx------   2 root root    48 Feb  3 04:15 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root   120 Jul 27  2005 mnt
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root    72 Jul 27  2005 opt
dr-xr-xr-x  82 root root     0 Feb  4  2006 proc
drwx------   8 root root   744 Feb  3 09:48 root
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4040 Feb  4  2006 sbin
drwxr-xr-x  10 root root     0 Feb  4  2006 sys
drwxrwxrwt  11 root root   472 Feb  3 16:42 tmp
drwxr-xr-x  15 root root   464 Feb  1 17:38 usr
drwxr-xr-x  12 root root   336 Feb  1 05:26 var
dr-xr-xr-x   1 root root 12288 Jan 28 19:26 windows

Edit:::
Solved, chmod 755 / did the trick.