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How-To: Teach Linux To Do Windows, Part 1: Page 21 of 32

Add the following:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/directoryname vfat defaults 0 0

Substitute the directory name you chose for your Windows drive for directoryname.

USB Scanners

My USB scanner, a Canon LIDE30, was recognized immediately by the SANE (equivalent to TWAIN in Windows) scanner access applicaton. Unfortunately, the only way I could access it via the xsane SANE scanner front end was by opening a "super user" session via terminal and entering xsane at the command line, as shown in the screen shot below.