mount permissions are making me loco

[locoguy]

Hi all fellow linux users I have a very newbie question I've searched the nfs and am still confused but I think fstab is where my answer is. My question is when I install mandrake7.2 on my hda3partition and check my mount permissions for cdrom,floppy,disk and windows/ all of them are drwxrwxrwx what I want to know is this normal and if not how do change them to r,x only for all but root I've tried chmod but nothing happens? Is there something Iam supposed to do during the install I removed my partitions and linux till I can fix this so thanks to all.

[nopun]

Sounds like they might be symbolic links. If that is the case then you can find the files that they are linked to using ls -l (will show file name -> target). The permissions on the real files are what count (symlinks will show 777 in any case).