On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 17:52 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 20 February 2006 17:27, Claude Jones wrote: > > On Mon February 20 2006 12:03 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > Everything looks absolutely fine in there. > > > > > > BTW, I also have desktop icon for removeable drives checked, but I don't > > > get one. > > > > > > Anne > > > > You've plumbed the extent of what I've ever had to do on multiple machines, > > running multiple distros (MEPIS, PCLinuxOS, and FC4) - on all these > > machines, I've had no issues after getting those settings right - FYI > > > > I actually have more problems with USB externals on my Windows boxes these > > days (not pen drives, but, mini-drives in external cases) > > > > sorry I can't be of more help > > > Thanks for trying. It's odd. It worked as expected at first, so it must be > something that I've changed, but I can't think what. It's not the end of the > world - I can manually mount, but it's just a tad less convenient. > I don't think it is anything _you_ changed. I had the same experience and have just lived with it (although it is irritating). On mine they seem to auto-mount but I never get the desktop icon. If I manually do an unmount then remount (from the CLI) the icon shows up. HTH Jeff