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Date:      Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:23:13 -0700
From:      Andriy Babiy <ababiy@shaw.ca>
To:        Koen de Wijs <koendewijs@gmx.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: auto mount xfce4 and kde
Message-ID:  <cf9d81e62c5f4.46d7ec11@shaw.ca>

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> 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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