On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Paul Stear <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday 06 March 2009 17:21:17 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> Paul Stear wrote: >> > On Friday 06 March 2009 16:43:47 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> >> If you're on KDE3, simply right-click on it's icon after you plug it it. >> >> You'll find permissions and mount options there. The important thing >> >> is to enable the option "mount as user". >> > >> > Hi, >> > When I switch the external drive on I get a screen "Medium type: >> > Unmounted Removable Medium >> > What do you want to do? >> > The 2 options are open in new window or Do nothing. >> > If I say open in new window I can see the drive but the permissions are >> > read only. >> > If I say do nothing then right click the icon on the desktop I only have >> > the following options:- >> > open >> > copy >> > open with >> > Safely remove >> > Open medium system folder >> > Properties >> >> "Properties". > > Thanks for the replies, sorry I haven't been back in touch for a few days. > If I click Properties and select the Permissions tab the User is -me(my user > name), Group is root. On the access Permissions part the Owner is set to "Can > View Contents". > If I change this to "Can View & Modify Content" and click "OK" I get an error > message "Could not change permissions for /media/lomega HDD". > I am on kde3.10. > Their must be a way of defining default permissions for anything plugged into > the usb port. > Can anyone help with this issue please. > Thanks > Paul
I don't know if it's still true but for a long time the older NTFS file system stuff in the kernel came up read-only by default. Have you turned on ability to write in your kernel config? - Mark
