Didier Casse wrote:
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.
Well sorry. I am really unsure as to the problem. The only difference I
see between you and I is that for me fstab-sync only creates a
mount-point, I still have to mount it manually. And this I do as my
normall uid=500 user.
Goodluck
`$ mount usbdrive`
Only root can mount.
