On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 06:49:54PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 06:32:18PM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > > Chris Henry wrote: > > >Hi, > > >I've just reinstalled a windows computer with debian today. While I > > >can add an entry to fstab to allow user to be able to mount an > > >external drive, it won't allow flexible usage of external > > >drive/thumbdrive. > > > > If you are using a recent enough version of debian (etch or later), > > just adding the user to the floppy group should be enough. > > > > # adduser <username> floppy > > > > Next time the user logs in, plugging in an external drive automatically > > mounts it. > > Only if he is running a DTE that does this. I never have. Let them > either run a cli to mount the thing or create a button on their wm icon > tray or an entry in a menu.
pmount can help. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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