I can confirm this issues still exists in a clean install of 12.04 LTS using FreeNX. I did find that if I hook a keyboard and a mouse up and log in locally, I can access the usb thumb drive normally. However, over FreeNX it says something like "Access Denied - Unauthorized." I can also access the drive over FreeNX after I have accessed it locally.
Since I mainly use the system remotely, I did find a way to access the thumb drive over FreeNX without it being too much of a hassel. I made a DiskUtil.sh script where I do not have to type in my sudo password every time: #!/bin/sh echo "yourSudoPassword" | sudo -S palimpsest When in the graphical Disk Utility, I can mount the usb drive and then click on the link on the right hand side that says "Mount Point: Mounted at /media/Transcend" and it will open up and I can copy to and from the drive normally. Note that even mounted, I cannot access the files through Nautilus at the mount point. I have to click the link in palimpsest or it will not work. But hey, at least I can access my thumb drive remotely. And for the record, I know that script file is not the best way to do that, but I tried several ways to do it correctly and they didn't work for me...so yeah, there is a script file somewhere on a system that has my password in it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/518533 Title: Unable to mount location Not Authorized after nautilus upgrade Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: nautilus Following an automatic upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10 between mid January and 6th February 2010 I can no longer mount any disks except the File System disc /. The same problem occurs on two different Ubuntu machines, both running Ubuntu 9.10. Both machines have two identical SATA discs - one has the File System on it and the other has other files which were accessible but now are not. One machine has a USB disc and that can not be mounted either. All disks are visible in Computer File Browser but double clicking gets a pop up window message "Unable to Mount Location Not Authorized." System->Administration->Disk Utility gets me to the Palimpsest Disk Utility that can see both disks in question and lists them as /dev/db and /dev/sdc In Terminal I get: david@tekels1:~$ sudo mount /dev/sdb mount: can't find /dev/sdb in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab and indeed they are not listed in those files. This is of course business critical as I'm in the process of moving my business servers from Windoze to Ubuntu ! Fortunately they are not live yet. david@tekels1:~$ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 9.10 Release: 9.10 david@tekels1:~$ apt-cache policy nautilus nautilus: Installed: 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu3 Candidate: 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu3 Version table: *** 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu3 0 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Sun Feb 7 19:59:59 2010 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 Package: nautilus 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu3 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-19.56-generic SourcePackage: nautilus Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic i686 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/518533/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
