You have Automounting turned on in the kernel and the appropriate package installed?
http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdebase-runtime/userguide/multimedia.html On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Paul Stear <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday 06 March 2009 13:36:55 Mark Haney wrote: > > Paul Stear wrote: > > > I have just bought a ionega 1 tb external hard disc but can not write > to > > > it. It is automatically mounted to media:/sdf1 but when I check the > > > permissions they are for mu user name, group root, owner "can view > > > Contents". Group and others "forbidden". I have tried as user and root > to > > > change permissions but I just get an error message saying "Could not > > > change permissions > > > for /media/iomega/HDD/System Volume Information. The disc is > > > pre-formatted with NTFS and I will want to be able to connect it to > > > windows some times. Thanks for any help > > > Paul > > > > Just to clarify, are you mounting the fs with ntfs3g? Have you tried > > unmounting and remounting manually? > Thanks all for the responses. > I am running ntfs3g on this machine. HAL is doing the mounting to > system:/media. > All I want is to be able to switch on the external drive, which then shows > up > on the desktop automatically and the copy files to it. > > I just thought all of this happened automatically these days, so I feel as > if > I have something not set up correctly or missing from my amd64 kde system. > Paul > > > -- > This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux > >
