From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 3 16:57:24 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA01616A417 for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2007 16:57:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from koendewijs@gmx.net) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1C22613C48E for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2007 16:57:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from koendewijs@gmx.net) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 03 Sep 2007 16:57:22 -0000 Received: from 84-107-168-5.dsl.quicknet.nl (EHLO [192.168.123.70]) [84.107.168.5] by mail.gmx.net (mp054) with SMTP; 03 Sep 2007 18:57:22 +0200 X-Authenticated: #25482162 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+m+zc4+famP3F4TYdHDmZBKrzgKO5A+4SF2QpQtD /erWf1Wshkh2Yj Message-ID: <46DC3D1F.8030904@gmx.net> Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 18:58:07 +0200 From: Koen de Wijs User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mel References: <46D7C623.5040709@gmx.net> <200708311422.33707.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <200708311422.33707.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: auto mount xfce4 and kde 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: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:57:24 -0000 Mel schreef: > On Friday 31 August 2007 09:41:23 Koen de Wijs wrote: > > >> 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; >> > > Don't know about XFCE4, but read on. > > >> I also added the regular user to the group operators. >> > > You don't wanna do that, unless it's ok with you that a user can get read > access to every file on every disk. Operator is meant for backup users. > > >> What do I need to do to get it working? >> > > portinstall desktop-bsd-tools and read the instructions about devfs, with a > major side-note: > ntfs/fat partitions can only be mounted by root, because mount changes the > owner of the disk to the underlying directory, so it's likely that your users > cannot mount usb-sticks. > To automount usb storage devices as root, have a look at usbd(8) and > usbd.conf(5). You'll have to provide an unmounter for your users though and > instruct them to unmount before removing or things go to hell. > > I've got everyting working right now except for the usb stick. I tried am-utils but I didn't lik that. Is I tried a lot of things and read a lot and everything almost works except for the usb-sticks. Before I will be busy with it for a couple of hours is this the way it should work? http://caia.swin.edu.au/reports/041130A/ This website describes how to add usb-devices but is it normal to add an extra script with devd or is just some wierd workaround? Koen