Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 00:22:16 -0400 From: Bob Perry <rperry4@earthlink.net> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Mounting A Floppy from the GNOME Desktop] Message-ID: <413159F8.50001@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <1093750101.55460.21.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <4131432D.5020308@earthlink.net> <1093748306.55460.15.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <41314B2F.7000108@earthlink.net> <41314D74.9060108@earthlink.net> <1093750101.55460.21.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 23:28, Bob Perry wrote: > > >>Bob Perry wrote: >> >> >> >>>Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 22:45, Bob Perry wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>Forgot to cc the list. >>>>> >>>>>-------- Original Message -------- >>>>>Subject: Re: Mounting A Floppy from the GNOME Desktop >>>>>Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 22:42:32 -0400 >>>>>From: Bob Perry <rperry4@earthlink.net> >>>>>To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> >>>>>References: <41310868.50603@earthlink.net> >>>>><1093733394.55460.8.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 18:34, Bob Perry wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>>Section 7.10.1 of the Nautilus 2.6.3 help text instructs you to >>>>>>>open the Computer icon on the GNOME desktop and double click >>>>>>>on the Floppy object if you wish to mount a floppy diskette. The >>>>>>>only objects in my Computer dialogue box are the FileSystem >>>>>>>and Network objects. There is a floppy folder in the FileSystem >>>>>>>file but I was expecting an icon/object as indicated. This is my >>>>>>>fstab data: >>>>>>> >>>>>>># Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# >>>>>>>/dev/fd0 /floppy msdos rw,noauto 0 0 >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Is there other inofrmation available which will help me resolve >>>>>>>this issue? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q19 >>>>>> >>>>>>Joe >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>>Thank you. >>>>>>>Bob Perry >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>Thanks Joe for the faq2 site. It's now a part of my bookmarks. >>>>> >>>>>Both floppy and cdrom objects appear in the Computer dialogue >>>>>window but I receive the message "Unable to mount selected >>>>>volume. msdos: /dev/fd0: Permission denied." when I select >>>>>the floppy. Similar problem with the cdrom object. >>>>> >>>>>I receive the same message when mounting manually from the >>>>>command line as user. However, there is no problem when I >>>>>"su" to root and then mount the floppy. I have user ownership >>>>>of both mountpoints. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>You also need to make sure you have write access to the device in >>>>question (e.g. /dev/fd0 or /dev/acd0c). If not, you will only be able >>>>to mount the volume read-only from the command line. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>The directory entries look like this: >>>/dev/fd0 crw-r----- root operator >>>/dev/acd0c crw-r----- root operator >>> >>> >>>Bob >>> >>> >>> >>Just noticed that the Nautilus file manager doesn't recognize >>the change to root when you perform the "su" command. >>That would explain the permissions problem. My guess is that if >>I ran startx as root, the problem would be solved. >> >> > >Yes. If you did that, you wouldn't need vfs.usermount, either. > > I ran startx as root and had no problem as you stated. Thanks for your assistance and patience. Bob -- I've learned that whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed. FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p2 #0
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