I can see the drive partition inside of dolphin under the device header on the left, I sused to be able to click on it and it would ask me for password, now it wont even give me that, gives me this error
Could not enter folder /var/run/media/root/Storage.
If i log in as root i can see the files fine. if i use the dolphin super user also works fine,
I want to get inside the storage disk and sort through some pictures using gwenview but now that i cant login to access it anymore…
To your problem:
Can you please start Konsole and type the following:
loginctl
What output do you get?
But if that is your error message:
Could not enter folder /var/run/media/root/Storage
then I think you already opened the drive as root, that’s why it can’t be opened as user anymore.
You have to “safely remove” it as root first (right-click on the drive in Super-user mode dolphin)
Because udisks2, which is used by KDE4 and GNOME3, mounts drives to subdirectories in /var/run/media/$USER/ to separate the users from each other.
That’s what makes me believe the OP has already mounted the drive as root in “Super-user mode dolphin”, because his error message is about “/var/run/media/root/Storage”.
And that would of course perfectly explain why he has insufficient permissions as user to access the mounted drive, i.e. /var/run/media/root/Storage.
This quick video I made shows how I mount and view my windows partition from openSUSE. After doing this I am able to mount, access, and write to the partition
Note - Make sure you click the tickbox beside “Mountable by User” and if you want to be able to write files to the partition, you will need to editt the dmask and fmask parameters. dmask=002 and parameter fmask=113
OpenSuse 12.3 with all current up to date updates…
as for changes?
I messed allot with samba to get a local network running…I basicly did all the default stuff to get the network to talk to other computers…
the (OpenSuse) computers are talking through samba for sure now…took me some days to get that to work…mainly cause im coming out of being a strick windows user.
I like the kdesu trick for sure…that fixes this for me now.
thanks
Thats Great!! Scary thought to mess with partitions and mounts…im afraid that id one day turn on computer and find the windows Option in the grub menu gone…soo spooked with messing with anything that hints of messing around with the partitions and mount points…
this video makes it look very easy and to the point actually…wondering if this at all would have any effect with accessing the drive it through windows somehow…or in my grub list of options??
On 2013-07-22 04:26, alienbee wrote:
> inside of super user in the dolphin right click to device gives me and
> " UNMOUNT" Storage option…do you mean that?
Yes.
Or simply reboot, and do not log in as root.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
Ok
I been able to use the kdesu to gwenview to view and move pictures and videos around -
but when i want to copy the file to view outside it in say for example play the video after i copy it to a home user directory …it keeps the file permissions as root and i cant open it in any of the video players outside of root?
so if i want to watch a movie thats is stored inside of ntsf drive through VLC it wont…cause VLC doenst play root owned files… and kafiene is just blank black screen,
From a GUI the best way us to use a file manager with root permission. So look in the menu. System-file Managers select one that says super user. Enter the root password when asked. Now you have a file manager running with root permission. go to the file in question in the Linux file system. Right click it and select properties. You can then change the permissions. either allow users to read or write or change the owner of the file.
