Can't unmount usb pen unless root but plugged it in as user

Patroni · 11-16-2003, 05:08 PM

As the title says, I can't unmount or write to a usb pen unless root but I plugged it in as a user. Can this be right? Surely if I plug the thing in while logged in as a normal user it's got nothing to with root. This just seems daft to me and is very irritating.

I'm running Mandrake 9.2 and so far this is the only thing that doesn’t work.

Tinkster · 11-16-2003, 05:14 PM

The problem here might be that the daemon that
actually does the mounting isn't you. To be able
to use my cam (unmounting it as user, too) I did

Code:

/dev/sda1       /mnt/cam msdos umask=000,user,users,rw  0       0

in /etc/fstab

The bits that might be interesting for you
is "umask=000,user,users,rw" for the options.

Cheers,
Tink

Patroni · 11-16-2003, 05:30 PM

I think I see what you mean.

I’ve been playing with it and found out and tried the unmask=000 bit. I’ll try adding the user,users,rw bit. I’d never heard of fstab before tonight this is all very new to me.

Still it seems a shame I have to edit a text file to get something to work when everything else went so smoothly. Printer, scanner and TV card all working properly. My Windows install didn’t do that!

Thanks for the fast reply as well, much appreciated.

Tinkster · 11-16-2003, 07:15 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Patroni
I think I see what you mean.

I’ve been playing with it and found out and tried the unmask=000 bit. I’ll try adding the user,users,rw bit. I’d never heard of fstab before tonight this is all very new to me.

Still it seems a shame I have to edit a text file to get something to work when everything else went so smoothly. Printer, scanner and TV card all working properly. My Windows install didn’t do that!

Thanks for the fast reply as well, much appreciated.

No worries mate ... and as for the "hard-ship", you'll
hopefully get used to it ... I actually LOVE it :}

Full control over what's going on.

Cheers,
Tink