On 4/20/05, Arthur Pemberton <dalive@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Gees. For my case Gnome mounts it automatically. I have upgraded my packages. it used to create only a mount point but now everything is just mounted. I mean that's really silly to mount the thing and only enables the root to read from it! -- 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
