On 4/20/05, Arthur Pemberton <dalive@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Didier Casse wrote: > > >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. > > > > > > > Ok, fair enough. What user are you logged in as when you put in the usb > drive? And what user do you use to mount the drive? (I would suggest > attempting this at the command promt just incase this is a gnome problem I'm login as myself. normal user. I don't mount it, fstab-sync mounts it and it mounts it as root. > `$ mount usbdrive` Only root can mount. -- 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
