On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 11:16:40AM +1050, sreynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Yesterday I installed Fedora on a stand-alone machine at > home. > > Q1) When I mount my USB flash drive I can only write to the > drive as root. I logged in as root and tried to change > permissions for all users to RWE (777?), but I get a message > that says that I don't have permission to change permissions > on the flash drive. I thought root was god, so my wild guess > is that there is something wrong with my entry for sda1 in > fstab: > > /dev/sda1 /mnt/removable auto auto,user,rw 0 0 > > Is there something wrong with this entry? Looks ok to my blind eye. I'll defer that to someone else. > > Q2) What's the command to change file and directory > permissions recursively down through a directory tree. chmod -R [permissions] [directory] > Q3) I have a reasonably new Canon LBP-810 laser printer that > I can't print to because Fedora doesn't have print drivers > for this printer. I've googled for printer drivers, but > can't find any. I've googled the problem and it seems Linux > cannot support this printer. The only solution that I can > find is to run a widows printer server and print through > that. This isn't a solution for a single stand-alone machine > at home and of course I don't want to network two machines > and run two machines just so that I can print. > > Is there a solution or has my printer denied me access to > the wonderful world of Linux? No clue there. One out of three isn't THAT bad. Good enough in baseball. Patrick
