That does not matter people share mount points all the time. It is clearly privs on the jjj folder.
I think at this point I would just do this: http://www.liberiangeek.net/2012/12/how-to-auto-mount-external-usb-devices-in-ubuntu-12-10-quantal-quetzal/ Mount it somewhere else, deal with the failure on boot up if it even cares then export from a non os managed location. On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 9:27 AM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
