Accessing vfat fs as normal user

[Don Nash <dhnash@bellatlantic.net>]

> Hi,
>
> After forgetting to rewrite my /etc/apt/sources.list, I then did an
> apt-get upgrade and wound up with  the unstable distribution.
> Now I can't seem to access any of my dos partitions as user, only as
> root. I have tried changing permissions as root using chmod for
> these partitions with no luck. I have no problem accessing  my native
> linux partitions.  Not shown in the fstab is my firewire drive , which
I
> manually mount as /dev/sdb  -t vfat /firewire.  I cannot access this
as
> a normal user either, only as root.  I have read the various mans for
> chmod,chown, setuid, setfsuid,update-passwd and have scoured the
> newsgroups and debian mailing lists for similar problems, to no avail.

> Attached is a copy of my fstab.   Aside from this relatively minor
> problem, which I'm sure is the result of something dumb I did, the
> distro runs pretty smoothly.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Don Nash
>
> # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options>                  <dump>
<pass>
> /dev/hda3       /             ext2   defaults,errors=remount-ro 0
1
>
> /dev/hdb3       /mnt/linux3   ext2   defaults                   0
0
>
> /dev/hdb5       /mnt/linux5   ext2   defaults                   0
0
>
> /dev/hdb6       /mnt/linux6   ext2   defaults                   0
0
>
> /dev/hdb4       none          swap   sw                         0
0
>
> /dev/hda5       /dos3         vfat
user,rw,noauto,umask=000             0      0
> /dev/hda12      /dos2         vfat   user,rw,noauto             0
0
>
> proc            /proc         proc   defaults                   0
0
>
> /dev/hdd        /cdrom2       auto   user,noauto                0
0
>