Automatic mounting of removable meadia

[Eric Pogroski]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:19:08 +0200
Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn at ant.uni-bremen.de> wrote:

> Hi list,
> 
> Is it possible to automatically mount media when they are inserted?
>  From the GNOME 2.4 documentation (Nautilus, 1.8.1:To mount Media):
> 
> "
> If your system is not configured to mount the device automatically,
> you must mount the device manually. Right-click on the desktop, then
> choose Disks->device-name. For example, to mount a floppy diskette,
> choose Disks->Floppy. An object that represents the media is added to
> the desktop."
> 
> So, how can i configure FreeBSD to mount the device automatically?
> 
> Unfortunately, the GNOME way to manually mount media via an entry in 
> /etc/fstab does not work under FreeBSD since the mountpoint must be 
> owned by the user, which is difficult to configure for a multiuser
> system.
> 
> Any solution?
> 
> Heinrich
> -- 

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