auto mount xfce4 and kde

Andriy Babiy ababiy at shaw.ca
Fri Aug 31 10:24:00 PDT 2007


> Edit devfs.conf and fstab files
> With permissions and links.
>
> Koen de Wijs wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> This week I installed FreeBSD on a computer of mine. Everything works 
>> fine but one thing I can't get working.
>> Every person should be albe to work with the machine. The only thing 
>> that isn't working is auto-mounting of cd-roms and usb-sticks. If KDE 
>> is started and I put a usb-stick in the computer there should appear a 
>> icon on the desktop with the usb drive on it and that should also work 
>> for cd-roms. On XFCE4 there should also appear an icon;
>>
>> I saw auto-mounting working on Linux Mandriva and PCBSD but how do I 
>> get it working with FreeBSD KDE and XFCE4?
>> I installed hal, dbus and policykit and added these lines to rc.conf:
>>
>> dbus_enable="YES"
>> hald_enable="YES"
>> polkitd_enable="YES"
>>
>> I also added the regular user to the group operators.
>>
>> What do I need to do to get it working?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Koen de Wijs

You might want to have a look at:
/usr/ports/sysutils/k3b/pkg-message
This file contains a detailed step-by-step instruction
on how to enable mounting for non-privileged users.

Also, the following port might be of interest to you:
/usr/ports/sysutils/am-utils

Andriy


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