Still Unable to mount /media/zip as regular user

[Bill Perkins]

Ed Landaveri wrote:
> Thanks Alexander for your reply. I went through the man pages with all 
> the option the last one I've tried:
> /dev/hdb4               /media/zip              auto    
> user,exec,dev,suid 0 0
>  but I still get:
> [ed at mybox~]$ mount /media/zip
> mount: special device /dev/hdb4 does not exist
>  even thoough /dev/hdb4 is there. I need to be root to mount the device:
> [root at mybox ~]# mount -t vfat /dev/hdb4 /media/zip/
> Then it get's mounted. Why I can mount the cdrom but no the zip drive? 
> These are they descriptions on /dev:
> [root at mybox ed]# stat /dev/hdb4
>   File: `/dev/hdb4'
>   Size: 0               Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   block s! 
> pecial file
> Device: dh/13d  Inode: 107552      Links: 1     Device type: 3,44
> Access: (0640/brw-r-----)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    6/    disk)
                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> Access: 2005-11-20 00:17:10.269227776 -0800
> Modify: 2005-11-20 00:17:10.269227776 -0800
> Change: 2005-11-20 00:17:10.000000000 -0800
> [root at mybox ed]# stat /dev/hdc
>   File: `/dev/hdc'
>   Size: 0               Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   block 
> special file
> Device: dh/13d  Inode: 666         Links: 1     Device type: 16,0
> Access: (0600/brw-------)  Uid: (  500/      ed)   Gid: (    6/    disk)
                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> ! Access: 2005-11-19 23:29:03.000000000 -0800
> Modify: 2005-11-19 13:25:11.658032824 -0800
> Change: 2005-11-19 21:26:42.000000000 -0800
> 
> Do I need to tweak somehow the block devices? Has anyone gone through 
> the same issue? Thanks a lot!
> Eddie
> Linux roolz! ---Always!
> 

Check the Uid in the above outputs- I think the problem is there.

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