To answer my own question, the solution I found was to change... /dev/maxoptix8 /media/optical xfs noauto,rw,user 0 0 ...to... /dev/maxoptix8 /media/optical xfs noauto,rw,pamconsole 0 0 Now when I start the usermount program, I see the additional line for this device. Now if I could just figure out how to get Nautilus to automount this device like it does for the cdrom and cdrecorder devices. Jack