In my case mounting a USB stick simply works with mount -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usb
----- Original Message ---- From: Koen de Wijs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, September 3, 2007 7:58:07 PM Subject: Re: auto mount xfce4 and kde Mel schreef: > On Friday 31 August 2007 09:41:23 Koen de Wijs wrote: > > >> This week I installed FreeBSD on a computer of mine. Everything works >> fine but one thing I can't get working. >> Every person should be albe to work with the machine. The only thing >> that isn't working is auto-mounting of cd-roms and usb-sticks. If KDE is >> started and I put a usb-stick in the computer there should appear a icon >> on the desktop with the usb drive on it and that should also work for >> cd-roms. On XFCE4 there should also appear an icon; >> > > Don't know about XFCE4, but read on. > > >> I also added the regular user to the group operators. >> > > You don't wanna do that, unless it's ok with you that a user can get read > access to every file on every disk. Operator is meant for backup users. > > >> What do I need to do to get it working? >> > > portinstall desktop-bsd-tools and read the instructions about devfs, with a > major side-note: > ntfs/fat partitions can only be mounted by root, because mount changes the > owner of the disk to the underlying directory, so it's likely that your users > cannot mount usb-sticks. > To automount usb storage devices as root, have a look at usbd(8) and > usbd.conf(5). You'll have to provide an unmounter for your users though and > instruct them to unmount before removing or things go to hell. > > I've got everyting working right now except for the usb stick. I tried am-utils but I didn't lik that. Is I tried a lot of things and read a lot and everything almost works except for the usb-sticks. Before I will be busy with it for a couple of hours is this the way it should work? http://caia.swin.edu.au/reports/041130A/ This website describes how to add usb-devices but is it normal to add an extra script with devd or is just some wierd workaround? Koen _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ____________________________________________________________________________________ Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos & more. http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"