Hi,
I’ve just set up an opensuse 11 install on our workshop computer at
work (we fix pc’s). I’ve setup windows xp in a virtualmachine if we
need it. The reasoning was I can copy files from customers infected HDD
over to ours without worrying about it spreading to our OS (that
happened to our XP install, hence the reason I decided to use
Opensuse).
Anyway the basic problem is this: We use USB docks and place the HDD’s
from customers PC’s into these to backup their data before we reinstall
their virus ridden/trashed Windows installations, then we put the data
back across afterwards. We do this several times a day.
Currently when I plug in a hard drive with NTFS (which is most peoples)
device notifier pops up but dolphin can’t mount it because it needs root
access to mount ntfs.
I then have to launch ntfs-3g and tick the ‘writeable’ box on the newly
discovered drive. Dolphin can then read and write to it. But after I’m
done I can’t unmount it to remove it because dolphin doesn’t have root
access! So I have to either run kdesu dolphin or go to the commandline.
Now I can do this fine myself…but the other guys here aren’t linux
nerds like myself and they want to be able to plug it in, click the
drive and drag files back and forth like they can under XP.
So is there a way with policy kit we can give dolphin/device notifier
root access and also make them mount with write access to ntfs?
For clarity this is what I would do with the commandline:
(become root)
mkdir /media/“ntfsvolume”
ntfs-3g /dev/sXXX/ /media/“ntfsvolume” -o force
(goto dolphin and copy files etc etc)
umount /dev/sXXX
Sooooo, if anyone knows how to make this a painless all gui operation
it would be great!
Geoffro, oldcpu - Thanks for your feedback - great news about
automounting ntfs! The problem is I have only got 11.0 because 11.1
wouldn’t install due to intel driver issues in the new kernel. I have
however got the kde4 factory repo running and am up to date with that.
Do you know which packages are in 11.1 that make this all happen. If
you knew what packages and which version maybe i could get the backports
repos that contain them and update my system and it might work??
just spent a long time at work getting 11.0 setup with virtualbox
running XP and not too keen on doing a fresh install of 11.1 from the
DVD even though it would probably solve the intel driver issue - partly
because I might get my butt kicked for “wasting time” =)
I have openSUSE 11.1 with the bundled version of KDE 4.1 and the hot
plugging of external USB NTFS drives works fine, just like you said.
However, I can’t seem to make “shortname=mixed” as the default NTFS
mount settings, do you know how to do this?