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7/22/08 - Follow up on linux question

 Normally I'd rather keep the conversation going through comments...but I can't reply to comments from work

[info]nik_w's comment suggested checking out fstab...I actually looked into trying to add user to fstab after discussing the issue with [info]mart over chat... I can't get fstab changes to "stick" if I edit the file, because the changes don't apply immediately and file is overwritten by fstab-sync when I reboot linux (I'm running linux through VMware so VMware is doing something with the hardware and telling the HAL what hardware is there and when its "available" to linux and when windows owns that hardware...so I don't think I can just turn off it being managed. here's my fstab line:

/dev/sdb1 /media/FIREFLY vfat pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0

But the "pamconsole" option *is* specified (which in theory should allow an ordinary user to mount the drive, but it doesn't actually work with the Disk Management app apparently...The closest I've gotten to solving it is a tip that you need at least version 1.76 of usermode and usermode-gtk, and that those packages might be old...but I can't figure out how to check whether those packages are of the required version or not...so I'm kind of stuck there.

I DID discover the GUI application to get samba configured though, so that at least makes it easier to get things onto the memory stick from the linux partition via windows...and solves a bunch of other problems that are totally unrelated to this one.

7/22/08 - Linux Question

 How can I set up Linux (Fedora/Red Hat) so that I don't have to be root to mount a USB memory stick (ie: so I can use the gnome window explorer rather than a terminal window to mount and then copy files to/from the memory stick...)