On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 03:56:42PM +0000, Sam J wrote: > Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > >On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 07:03:22AM +1100, Graham Williams wrote: > > > > > At any time on one machine (home machines running Debian unstable) I > > > allow multiple users to have their X sessions running concurrently > > > (e.g., on tty7, tty8, etc). I've not yet figured out how to get > > > gnome-volume-manager working happily in this situation. > > > > My initial reaction is "sorry, you loose". > > > > You are in a situation where g-v-m just won't work. By automatically > > mounting a device the first user that mounts the device "owns" it, > > i.e. only this user and root can unmount this device (it's what the > > "user" option does) > > Could g-v-m be configured to use the "users" option instead of "user"? > According to mount(8), it should allow any user to unmount the device > regardless of who mounted it.
yes, but this alone will not do. you also need to make the files available, so a group and the right gid options would be best in this circunstance. Friendly, Sven Luther
