On a computer running Xubuntu I have a second hard drive (in the media folder it's called HDD 2), but only I can access it. How do I make it so anyone can access it?

Open /etc/fstab with a text editor and set hard drive options to umask=022 (755 permissions)

This is what came up when I opened etc/fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=1f30ebe5-7168-44f8-9f4b-0532173f3ff4 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=75ae6f80-d6cb-4bde-aef0-f5d1e3385928 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec 0 0


What am I supposed to change?

I think it might help to also just give 755 permissions to the /media/whatever folder the disk gets mounted to, I'm not sure. You can do this either on the command line or by startin thunar as root ($ sudo thunar on the command line).

It usually helps, but I have a feeling it's not the "real way" to handle it.

Thunar didn't work.

I tried the way described on the Ubuntu documentation and that didn't work.

This is what came up when I opened etc/fstab

What am I supposed to change?
None of those look like a secondary hard drive. Post your /etc/mtab

Here is the etc/mtab.

/dev/sda1 / ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
/sys /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
varrun /var/run tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755 0 0
varlock /var/lock tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0
devshm /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
lrm /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/volatile tmpfs rw 0 0
securityfs /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw 0 0
nfsd /proc/fs/nfsd nfsd rw 0 0
/dev/sdb2 /media/HDD\0402 vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,utf8,umas k=077,usefree 0 0

Copy the last line to /etc/fstab and change umask=077 to umask=022

Like this

/dev/sdb2 /media/HDD\0402 vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,utf8,umas k=022,usefree 0 0

When I try to save it a message comes up saying "Can't open file to write".

Open it as root. Sudo command in Ubuntu

How do I open it in the terminal?

sudo nano /etc/fstab

How do I save the changes?

Ctrl+x and answer (y)es when it asks you to save the file

I saved it. Now whenever I try to center the hard drive it says "Cannot mount volume: You are not privileged to mount the volume 'HDD 2'" and "Unable to mount 'HDD 2': Unknown errpr". When I go into the media folder it's disappeared.

Did you reboot? The drive should be mounted during startup. If it doesn't then add auto to options

I restarted the computer. The permissions is now read only for everyone (I can still read and write).

If you want it to be writable for everyone, remove the umask part, so that the line looks like/dev/sdb2 /media/HDD\0402 vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,utf8,usef ree 0 0And then reboot.