Problem Mounting Drives

[melakii]

I recently (with help from a friend) installed Slackware 9.1 and Dropline Gnome. I changed permissions for my regular user so I could access my drives and not have to "su root" everytime. Here comes the problem. I can mount the drive but it changes the group and the owner to a long string of numbers when I do and when I fire up totem to tet the drive I get an error that say the device can't be read. I know that I linked it to the right drive because this doesn't happen when I am root. Could anyone give me some insight on why this is happening? Thanks for help in advance.

[lepricaun]

did you chmod the drive to let the user access the drive???

you can do this just the same as any other file or folder.

[melakii]

Yes, I set permissions to 777 and I added the user to the wheel group. That is why it is wierd. You would think that I would have no problems out of it but I still do. Thanks for your help. Any other suggestions?

[cgkanchi]

Have you set a umask in the device entry in the fstab file?

Cheers,
cgkanchi

[melakii]

No, I didn't. Was I supposed too? As I am fairly new to the world of Linux is there any way can explain what a umask is or point me in the direction of a good site for it? I know that is has something to do with file permissions but that is about all I know about it. Thanks for the help so far.