On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 20:28:34 -0800
John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> dijo:

>On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 19:14:48 -0800
>Chris Schafer <[email protected]> dijo:

>>I would export /media.

>OK, I tried this. I added a third line to exports to export
>just /media. On the desktop I was able to mount it. Elated, I opened
>Thunar only to discover a big padlock on /media/jjj. From the command
>line I did chown jjj:jjj, and it executed without error, but the
>padlock remained. Then I did sudo chmod 777 -R /media, which produced
>error messages:
>
>       chmod: changing permissions of /media/jjj/Devil-Bonobo:
>       Operation not permitted
>
>And so on for everything in /media.
>
>Using Thunar I checked on Properties for /media/jjj and it said that it
>was owned by root:root. I assume that it was owned by root because I
>had to use sudo to mount it. But that doesn't make sense. We always
>have to use sudo to mount things, but the regular user can still see
>them after they are mounted. And how is it that root cannot change
>permissions?
>
>I also tried deleting the jjj folder in /media on the laptop, then
>mounting Movies. Xubuntu just recreated the jjj folder and mounted
>Movies at /media/jjj. Adding <username> at media may not have been the
>best idea, but apparently we're stuck with it.

I discovered something this morning. If I double-click on jjj with the
padlock on in Thunar on the desktop, even though its properties say it
is owned by root:root, it opens. And there is the Movies folder (no
padlock), and I can see and read/write all the files in it.

To get this odd success I had to mount just the /media share. Trying to
mount /media/jjj/Movies directly still fails. And I don't understand
why jjj has a padlock on it in Thunar and is owned bu root:root, yet I
can open it as jjj.

I am also still curious why I cannot mount /media/jjj/Movies. The only
explanation I can come up with is that it is a mount point, where the
other shares are permanent folders. 
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