Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 09/01/2008, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > GNOME and KDE are *supposed* to do this for you. That is what I would like. I use KDE. > If he uses GNOME, does OP have gnome-mount and gnome-volume-manager > installed? What is the KDE equivilent? Note that when I insert a CD, the "what to

Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/09/08 15:35, Bob McGowan wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: On 09/01/2008, Sjoerd Hardeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It is strange that hal isn't mounting it. Is hal running properly (try lshal). I got lots of output from that command, so I assume that HAL is running. You can mount in userspa

Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-09 Thread Bob McGowan
Dotan Cohen wrote: On 09/01/2008, Sjoerd Hardeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It is strange that hal isn't mounting it. Is hal running properly (try lshal). I got lots of output from that command, so I assume that HAL is running. You can mount in userspace using pmount /dev/sdb1. It will then

Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 21:33:03 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 09/01/2008, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > > It is strange that hal isn't mounting it. Is hal running properly (try > > lshal). > > I got lots of output from that command, so I assume that HAL is running. The amount of information is a bit

Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 09/01/2008, Sjoerd Hardeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is strange that hal isn't mounting it. Is hal running properly (try > lshal). I got lots of output from that command, so I assume that HAL is running. > You can mount in userspace using pmount /dev/sdb1. It will then mount > under /me

Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-09 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Dotan Cohen schreef: > On 09/01/2008, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 01/09/08 02:21, Dotan Cohen wrote: >>> On 09/01/2008, John Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What are your groups that you belong to? You might have to add yourself to the plugdev group. >>> [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 09/01/2008, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 01/09/08 02:21, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > On 09/01/2008, John Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> What are your groups that you belong to? You might have to add yourself to > >> the plugdev group. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ groups > > f

Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/09/08 02:21, Dotan Cohen wrote: On 09/01/2008, John Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What are your groups that you belong to? You might have to add yourself to the plugdev group. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ groups feisty adm dialout cdrom floppy audio dip video plugdev scanner netdev lpadmin

Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 09/01/2008, John Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What are your groups that you belong to? You might have to add yourself to > the plugdev group. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ groups feisty adm dialout cdrom floppy audio dip video plugdev scanner netdev lpadmin powerdev admin > Here are my groups

Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-08 Thread John Schmidt
On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I have a 2GB Sandisk Cruzer USB drive that I removed the U3 garbage > from. I formatted the disk as FAT in a friend's WindowsXP machine. > Now, any Windows machine can read and write to the disk, and my Fedora > desktop can read and write to it as a

Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 09/01/2008, Chris Howie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try "mount /media/usb" as a user. > That's all there was to it??! Thanks, that worked! I can get by now, but for the wife's sake, can this be handled by HAL's automount? Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-

Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-08 Thread Chris Howie
Try "mount /media/usb" as a user. On Jan 8, 2008 7:33 PM, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a 2GB Sandisk Cruzer USB drive that I removed the U3 garbage > from. I formatted the disk as FAT in a friend's WindowsXP machine. > Now, any Windows machine can read and write to the disk, an

Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
I have a 2GB Sandisk Cruzer USB drive that I removed the U3 garbage from. I formatted the disk as FAT in a friend's WindowsXP machine. Now, any Windows machine can read and write to the disk, and my Fedora desktop can read and write to it as a regular user. However, my Ubuntu Feisty 7.04 laptop can