nautilus and mouting?

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Mon Jul 7 11:43:19 PDT 2003


On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 13:51, Martin Klaffenboeck wrote:
> Am 2003.07.07 19:38 schrieb(en) Joe Marcus Clarke:
> > On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 08:22, Martin Klaffenboeck wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Where can I find what I do have to do to get nautilus working for
> > > mounting floppy and cdrom and scsi cdrw devices from user accounts?
> > >
> > > Every user in group X should have the possibility to mount this
> > devices
> > > via nautilus (or from the gnome-terminal).
> > 
> > Did you also enable the vfs.usermount sysctl?
> 
> Yes, I could now get it working for the gnome-terminal.
> 
> I have an fstab entry like:
> 
> /dev/fd0                floppy          msdos   dev,rw,noauto  0   0
> 
> But the problem is, nautilus cannot cope with that, and also the user 
> can only mount it from there when he is at the top of his home 
> directory.
> 
> So now I have a few ideas, where I do not know how to configure:
> 
> 1) Can I let a user mount to a directory which he doesn't own?

You can't unless you hack the kernel.

> 2) How can I set up an fstab entry, which matches to every user?  
> ${HOME}/floppy and ~/floppy didn't work for me.

I don't think you can do this, either.  You may want to ask on
questions at .

Joe

> 
> Thanks,
> Martin
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