You haven't done anything "wrong". You just need to give permissions to the "normal" users. The following is from an earlier post by Chris D. *** To allow a user to mount a cdrom, su -c adduser <username> cdrom *** replace "cdrom" with the zip drive ie "parport0" Sam. Perry Hoekstra wrote: >Hopefully an easy question for a Friday night. I am trying to get >VMware to recognize a ZIP drive I have on my parallel port. Within my >/etc/fstab file, it points to /dev/sda4. However, I have tried that >within VMware and it states that /dev/sda4 does not exist. If I try >/dev/parport0, I get a permission denied. However, I can mount and >write to the ZIP drive as a normal user, not root. What have I done >wrong. > >Perry Hoekstra > > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list