acces scanner and usb -stick as user

[kareltjekrul]

Hy everyone,

I am pretty newbie in linux and lately I switched from mandrake 10.0 to fedora3.
I must say I really like it. I got allt the things I wanted/needed to work.
Even gdesklets with the starterbar. ( really cool! )
There's only one problem: I can only acces usb stuff as root.
When I log in as root my usb-stick mounts and I can use my scanner.
But only as root! I sepose it has something to do with my account/group/permittions.
I tried to add some groups to my user account but that didn't help.
Could somebody help me with this?

Thanks............greetings Ben

[sarumont]

To access your USB stick as a user, just add an entry for it in your /etc/fstab like such:

/dev/sda1               /mnt/usb        vfat            users,noauto,rw,exec,umask=002          0 0

The important part is the 'users' option. It allows normal users to mount it via 'mount /mnt/usb'.

As for your scanner, check out /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions. Look for your scanner device in there (whatever it shows up as in /dev) and change the group owner on it (second field) to a group that your user is in (or you can add a 'scanner' group for it and put him in). Also make sure the permissions on the device are 0660.

[kareltjekrul]

As for the scanner problem it sort of solved itself, after an update with up2date it suddenlly worked fine
The usb stick is a bit weird, when I start the very first time, it mounts itself and everything works just fine. After I unmount it the fun is over .
It,s not reconized anymore.
I added the line in fstab like you said, but that didn't help, so I removed it again.
When I go to the fstab file the first time the stick is mounted, there is an entry that looks like:
dev/sda1 /media/NO_NAME vfat.
After unmounting the line is gone until rebooting.
Any suggestions ?

Thanks for your reply, greetings Ben..............

[ANTesocial]

Ok first of all my comp is an OLD!!! HP Vectra P2 233 blah blah (parts)

I'm adventuring into the fun of proxy servers, so I decided Linux with Squid ... and to start off slowly I got RH9 ... the n00b version basically. I then downloaded squid and put it on my thumbdrive ... yes this box has USB *boggle* and realized it probably wouldn't automount ... so onto the forums it is ... found your nice little bit of info thank you very much.

Well, mounting worked like a charm, detected, found, saw everything in it ... and when I couldn't figure out how to do a quick link from the desktop to the thumbdrive ... I decided to just copy from one to the other. After I realized it would take a while I went off to do other things ... PS2 based ... and returned to a frozen mouse/machine and the lights on my keyboard kept flashing on/off.

Any clues as to what could have gone on?

Glad to meet you all and sorry for landing this on your doorstep.

--ANTesocial

[kareltjekrul]

The usbstick is working fine now too. Still don't know what precisely has changed now, I think it has something to do with some sort of a bootsector on the stick.
What I did is first format the stick in fedora, which didn'd change a thing in it's weird behaviour. Then I formatted it on a windowsXP laptop.
After that it just works fine and I can mount and unmount it time after time .
I know it isn't realy a linux-minded solution but let's just say the purpose justifice the means

Greetings Ben

[ANTesocial]

does anyone have any input as to what may cause this?

--ANTesocial