This one time, at band camp, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The best link that I found was below; > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/127 > Which says that they had a good source from: > http://www.greenfly.org/tips/autofs.html Thanks for the pointers I have now in my /etc/fstab /dev/sdb1 /mnt/windows_g vfat rw,user,noauto 0 0 I unmounted the removable drive and used mount -a /dev/sdb1 /mnt/windows_g so that it would re-read the fstab still no joy I am reading up a little on the greenfly link and hope to glean more from there Kind regards Kevin -- "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."