Probs with user accounts, accessing mounted devices

[Dikkiedik]

Hi there,

I'm a newb concidering Gentoo (or even Linux 4 that matter) but not a newb newb..

My problem:

I want 2 add an account, simple. So I use the useradd (name) -m -G users,wheel,audio s /bin/bash and fire up the new account. I change some font settings in the control panel.. Do some window ajustments and then it comes. I want to change my background.

So I go to my mounted ntfs station where all my stuff is, and I can't get in! Even if I delete the account, remake it with adjustments: add fs, xfs, adm, etc. groups to it. It just keeps saying I can't get in. Dito for my fat32(mounted as vfat, is that dumb?) station.

/dev/hdc7 is mounted as /mnt/E ntfs station submitted in /etc/fstab
/dev/hdc8 is mounted as /mnt/TRANS vfat station submitted in /etc/fstab also.

When I try to change the permissions (right mouse button on the device under root) it starts to wine that changing attributes of files is not supported for protocol devices.

I tryed using webmin because a friend told me so, but I got lost. Any help with webmin?

Or any advise you have for me? Help is welcome and as ussual I totaly surrender myself to the community to help me out here,

for as long it takes, I'm working as root constantly.. and I'm not comfortable with that because my mother told me not 2

Kev

[alechiko]

Can you please show me your fstab configuration?
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None

[Dikkiedik]

/dev/hdc2 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 1
/dev/hdc3 / reiserfs noatime,notail 0 0
/dev/hdc6 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc7 /mnt/E ntfs noatime 0 0
/dev/hdc8 /mnt/TRANS vfat noatime 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0

# NOTE: The next line is critical for boot!
none /proc proc defaults 0 0

Here you go (got slunky with the tabs.. sorry for that)

[alechiko]

Ok, try this:

[Dikkiedik]

What will this do? are you sure it is user, instead of users?
of do you mean the account name?
I'm trying all of this as I type this

btw what does umask=000 do?? I'm curious.

It's logic to mount ntfs as ro (I assume this means read only)
and also to mount vfat as rw(which I assume to be read write)
but when I fired up my (user) account and kde started complaining
so I'm restarting now, trying all the things above with fstab,
any other ideas? I'll let you know when i'm victorious

kev

[alechiko]