Hey Shawn, Have you added "plugdev" as a secondary group to your account? This is a stab in the dark and assuming that you are using the GUI to manage the users.
Cheers! Neil On Wednesday 23 January 2008 21:59, Shawn wrote: > I've seen this now on two different systems, so know it's a Ubuntu > thing, and not a "shawn" thing... > > Plugging an external USB drive enclosure into the box. Ubuntu detects > the drive and asks what I want to do with it - so I open the folder. I > can read the contents, but cannot modify/write to the drive. The > mounted drive is a FAT32 drive. > > Fist impression says just change the ownership on the mount point. > Except that even as root I'm being told I can't. So I look at doing a > chmod on the mount directory and no joy there either (sometimes). > > So my question is, what am I missing? Is there a group I can add my > user too to get permission to these drives? Is there a simpler way? > > I *know* I can make this work by going to the command line and doing a > manual mount, or adjusting permissions/ownership, or tweaking the udev > rules, etc. But the idea is that these drives should just be "plug and > play", without having to fuss with em. > > Any tips are appreciated. > > Shawn _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
