[Fwd: Re: Mounting A Floppy from the GNOME Desktop]

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 23:28, Bob Perry wrote:
> Bob Perry wrote:
> 
> > Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 22:45, Bob Perry wrote:
> >>  
> >>
> >>> Forgot to cc the list.
> >>>
> >>> -------- Original Message --------
> >>> Subject:     Re: Mounting A Floppy from the GNOME Desktop
> >>> Date:     Sat, 28 Aug 2004 22:42:32 -0400
> >>> From:     Bob Perry <rperry4 at earthlink.net>
> >>> To:     Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com>
> >>> References:     <41310868.50603 at earthlink.net> 
> >>> <1093733394.55460.8.camel at shumai.marcuscom.com>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> >>>
> >>>   
> >>>
> >>>> On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 18:34, Bob Perry wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>     
> >>>>
> >>>>> Section 7.10.1 of the Nautilus 2.6.3 help text instructs you to
> >>>>> open the Computer icon on the GNOME desktop and double click
> >>>>> on the Floppy object if you wish to mount a floppy diskette.  The
> >>>>> only objects in my Computer dialogue box are the FileSystem
> >>>>> and Network objects.  There is a floppy folder in the FileSystem
> >>>>> file but I was expecting an icon/object as indicated.  This is my
> >>>>> fstab data:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> # Device Mountpoint FStype  Options   Dump  Pass#
> >>>>> /dev/fd0  /floppy   msdos   rw,noauto  0     0
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Is there other inofrmation available which will help me resolve 
> >>>>> this issue?
> >>>>>  
> >>>>>       
> >>>>
> >>>> http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q19
> >>>>
> >>>> Joe
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>     
> >>>>
> >>>>> Thank you.
> >>>>> Bob Perry
> >>>>>  
> >>>>>       
> >>>>
> >>> Thanks Joe for the faq2 site.  It's now a part of my bookmarks.
> >>>
> >>> Both floppy and cdrom objects appear in the Computer dialogue
> >>> window but I receive the message "Unable to mount selected
> >>> volume.   msdos: /dev/fd0:  Permission denied."  when I select
> >>> the floppy.  Similar problem with the cdrom object.
> >>>
> >>> I receive the same message when mounting manually from the
> >>> command line as user.  However, there is no problem when I
> >>> "su" to root and then mount the floppy.  I have user ownership
> >>> of both mountpoints.
> >>>   
> >>
> >>
> >> You also need to make sure you have write access to the device in
> >> question (e.g. /dev/fd0 or /dev/acd0c).  If not, you will only be able
> >> to mount the volume read-only from the command line.
> >>  
> >>
> > The directory entries look like this:
> > /dev/fd0       crw-r-----   root   operator
> > /dev/acd0c   crw-r-----   root   operator
> >
> >
> > Bob
> >
> Just noticed that the Nautilus file manager doesn't recognize
> the change to root when you perform the "su" command.
> That would explain the permissions problem.  My guess is that if
> I ran startx as root, the problem would be solved.

Yes. If you did that, you wouldn't need vfs.usermount, either.

Joe

> 
> Bob
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