On 4/20/05, Arthur Pemberton <dalive@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Didier Casse wrote: > > >Hi, > > My FC3 box can recognize my external usb harddisk when I plug it > >in. In gnome the icons pop up on the desktop but when I try to open it > >to read it, it tells me that I do not have the permission to do it!!! > > > >I realize that only root can read the /media/whatever_stuff which is mounted. > > > >I would like to enable it for a normal user. How do I do this? Thanks > >for the help > > > >I mean I don't know the idea behind this but it's kind of silly that > >only root is able to read an external harddrive. > > > > > > > The only root being able to mount external media was in the FC1 early > FC2 days. I know from experience that this works very well in FC3. Only > difference is that I use KDE, i doubt however that that is the issue. Dear Arthur, It works fine... Everything is correctly mounted but I have to be root to see the files on my external hard drive. I want to be able to see the files as a NORMAL USER. -- Cheers, Didier. ------------ Didier F.B Casse | PhD candidate | LiMiNT Beamline Singapore Synchrotron Light Source (SSLS), 5 Research Link, Singapore 117603 Email: elprodigioREMOVE_THIS_ANTISPAM_MOJO@xxxxxxxxx| Web: http://ssls.nus.edu.sg | GPG Key 1024D/B3C57D01 2004-06-23