On Monday 09 March 2009 11:34:13 Mark Knecht wrote: > 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
Thanks Mark, I have just checked the kernel and write is turned on. Any other ideas? Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux
