AutoMount

From: ik (ik8675_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/21/05 

Date: 21 Mar 2005 00:51:42 -0800

Hello All,
I installed vector-linux, in my old Laptop (Toshiba 2520CDT).
Everything works fine after quite a bit of research on Internet. I am
having problems in automount. I would like my system automount my
windows drives. I googled and found out that autofs is the solution.
"ps -ef" doesnt give any process named autofs in my system. I tried to
look for auto.master in /etc/ dir. I couldnt find that too. So I
persume, the kernal I have, doesnt support starting autofs.. am I
correct ? .. is there any way I can confirm it ? Is there any round
about way to do it ? My second question is as follows.
After being unsuccessful in mounting through autofs, I tried to
manually mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows/win_c
/dev/hda5 /mnt/windows/win_d
/dev/hda6 /mnt/windows/win_f

It works perfectly when I am root. But, when I login as any other user
I dont have rigts to access the files. chmod -R 755 /mnt/windows/win_d
is a very time consuming process, and it fails to store the information
once I rebbot. Is there some way I can have r+w permissions on the
drives I have mounted as root ?

Thanks in advance for any help.
Ik.

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