hello every1,
how do i access external drives from my other accounts? I’m running openSUSE 11.1 KDE 4.0.
And can anyone suggest me how i can get my Device Notifier back to my taskbar? I donno wat happnd bt it suddenly disappeard. Updates mayb?!
thnx
What do you mean by “access” ? Can a regular user READ the files on an external drive, but not WRITE files to the drive?
my Device Notifier shows the external drive but i can’t open the folder! there was some command i used on my older computer to edit HAL or sumfin but i can’t seem to find it on the internet!!!
please help!
I can not help with edits to HAL nor sumfin ( ? ) *
Make certain when you use your external drive that you always remove it properly. ie if you used it under windows, then reboot to windows, insert the drive, and then properly unmount the drive. Do this a couple of times. Then try again with Window.*
its nthin 2 do with the drive. they work fine on other system or as root(chk the subject!!; which part of "ONLY ROOT CAN ACCESS EXTERNAL DRIVE don u undastand??) i jus need to know how to grant the local users access to the external drives.!
the way that worked for us; that other linux users may frown upon; was to log in as root; ie username root and enter root password; yes, a GUI; the external drive appears as an icon on the desk top; (if connected and plugged in); right-click; select properties, and select the permissions section; there are three fields going down: owner, group and others; allow access by users; I think that is all we changed; immediately log out and log in as normal user again; seems to work well; do not do anything else when logged in as root;others may severely disapprove of this GUI action
The part I don’t understand, is what do you mean by access? Do you mean READ access? Do you mean WRITE access? Do you mean both ?
thnx for the help!
bt the openSUSE 11.1 doesn’t show the external drives on your desktop.
Could you not just run konqueror as root rather than firing up a whole desktop as root?
Still on Suse 11 myself but I imagine it’s the same in 11.1, as the drive is detected you should be able to see it by typing something like kdesu konqueror /media in a terminal
Entering the root password when asked of course
Once you identify it in there you should have the same right-click, properties options as you would if it were an icon on root’s desktop
oldcpu wrote:
> shresthanoz;1946162 Wrote:
>> which part of "ONLY ROOT CAN ACCESS EXTERNAL DRIVE don u undastand??)
>
> The part I don’t understand, is what do you mean by access? Do you
> mean READ access? Do you mean WRITE access? Do you mean both ?
does not make any difference as he has already ‘fixed’ the problem by
logging into KDE as root…
THE WORST advice he could follow…
well, i guess there actually are few thing worse (but they are all
intentionally malicious)…
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Indeed. Typically more, difficult to understand, problems with permissions are introduced by such a log in.
> to log in as root; ie username root and enter root password; yes, a GUI;
> <snip> others may severely disapprove of this GUI action
please refrain from giving the advice of logging into the GUI as root
as it SO often introduces subtle and nearly impossible to find/fix
problems…
please don’t suggest that others take the risk, please…
some old guy wrote about it and gives a link about the RIGHT and safe
way to use root powers, and posted here:
http://texan.dk/temp/SUSEsignInROOT.html
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when im logged in as user, /media doesnt show my external drive. just my Device Notifier shows that the device is pluged in. btw i loggd in as root and got the device working with the user account. bt i cant do this for all the other devices 2.
anywayz thout this would help: this is the error message i get when i try to acces the external drive;
“An error occured while accessing ‘VOLUME-NAME’, the system responded: org.freedestop.Hal.Device.PermissionDeniedByPolicy: org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable auth_admin_keep_always ← (action, result)”