From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 2 01:58:02 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EEEF16A400 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 01:58:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joe@joeholden.co.uk) Received: from satriani.as6911.net (satriani.as6911.net [62.84.160.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C98A013C46B for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 01:58:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joe@joeholden.co.uk) Received: from [192.168.10.199] (dsl172-67.as6911.net [62.84.172.67]) by satriani.as6911.net (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l121anEi080633; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 01:36:53 GMT (envelope-from joe@joeholden.co.uk) Message-ID: <45C295B7.5080209@joeholden.co.uk> Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:36:55 +0000 From: Joe Holden User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Shenton References: <867iv1mldg.fsf@Bacalao.shenton.org> In-Reply-To: <867iv1mldg.fsf@Bacalao.shenton.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Easy USB-drive automounter and "filemanager" for nontechies? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:58:02 -0000 Chris Shenton wrote: > I'm a longtime FreeBSD user but my S.O. just barely uses the machines > -- Pine and Firefox mostly. Doesn't even know she has a homedir or > that there's a bunch of stuff in it. > > She now has a digital recorder with a 1GB CF card that interfaces to > computers with a USB cable and she needs to get files off of. She can > plug it into USB OK but -- as her sysadm -- I have to mount it and > copy the files off, then unmount. > > I'm looking for something like she'd get on a Mac or PC: > > 1. a way to automount the USB 'drive' when she plugs in > 2. a visual filemanager or some other friendly way for her to see > files and copy them off so she can mail them or whatnot. > 3. a way to safely unmount the USB device when she's done > > I'm starting to play with the user-priv mounting, then will look at > telling usbd to mount the drive when it sees it... Is this is the > right technical solution? > > I've got no idea about friendly GUI/filemanager with drag-n-drop or > other easy way to get files off. She's using simple olde FVWM2 now > and I'd prefer not to load up a massive GUI like KDE or Gnome. I just > don't know what's out there, being a command line dinosuar myself. > > Any recommendations? > > Thanks. > _______________________________________________ IIRC, you can have usbd execute $stuff, i'm not sure to the extent of how useful it is however. Sorry i'm not much help Thanks, -- Joe Holden Telephone: +44 (0) 207 100 9593 Email: joe@joeholden.co.uk Website: http://www.joeholden.co.uk IRC: raindance@Quakenet/#FreeBSD