> I've also noticed that the drive is visible in > nautilus (left pane) as normal user but not when I > run nautilus as root.
Hmm, which version (build) of Opensolaris is that? There is an issue in recent builds (build 123, 124) that a non-root gui console user doesn't own the /dev/console device, and that does break a lot a things (e.g. rmmount or eject with removable media for a non-root user). See also bug 6885612 "Console user" profile implementation need to be updated after Virtual Console integration http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6885612 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
