On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 10:55 -0600, Josh Lawrence wrote: > > I was infuriated to find that the latest version of Ubuntu does not > > AUTOMATICALLY mount a USB drive as soon as it's plugged it. It does > > appear on the Gnome desktop, with a nice descriptive icon, but as soon > > as the user clicks it they get PERMISSION DENIED. > > > > Christ, it's 2005, do they still expect us to fuck with config files? > > Lee, > > Sorry to hear that, but my USB key works just fine in Ubuntu 5.10. It > is formatted as FAT (32, maybe?). This was an NTFS filesystem. Despite the presence of NTFS read-write support in the kernel it seems to mount it such that only root can access the filesystem. Lee
