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Aha! I worked it out. The reason it didn't work is indeed hidden in a sentence in the link posted by SirDice. "All users can now mount the floppy /dev/fd0 onto a directory that they own" I assumed that if the directory has rwx permissions for owner or group, you can mount on it, but...

I have already read this document and as far as I can tell I have done everything in it. No matter, for some reason everything is working this morning. I should be happy I guess, but it's not satisfying when problems just resolve themselves mysteriously, and you don't know what was going on...

If no-one knows what the problem is, can anybody give me an indication of what steps I can take to troubleshoot this? Should I report it as a bug with the mount utility or OS?

Hi, I have a backup server which has USB caddies attached to it, each holding a hard disk. I have recently rebuilt the server with 8.1, and have now found that it is not possible to mount these drives as user 'backup', whereas previously I have been able to. The command: # mount -t ufs...

oh, which leads me to the question, how long does it take to be approved. I have been waiting about 4 hours and still nothing...

I just realized that it may be because a moderator needs to approve it. I didn't notice the first time; a message comes up saying the moderator will approve it, but with barely enough time to read it before the page redirects...

Hi all, Playback of a particular WMV stream doesn't seem to work correctly in Firefox. I am using the mplayer plugins. The link is http://home.att.net/~cherokee68/wmvtest2.html. The video plays, but it looks like everything has been put into a blender. The first couple of seconds play...

testing, because my last post did not submit for some reason