Hi Elio, >Thanks Christoph! I've used that approach on another situation, but I >don't like that a shortcut for the command appears on the desktop. Do >you know how to prevent the icon from showing up?
I never noticed that because my users never see a desktop. They get an automatically starting connection to a specific server and that's ist. ;-) But meanwhile Thomas posted a solution for this. >As for the script, I've changed it to only list FAT partitions, as they >seem to be the only ones fully supported: > >#!/bin/bash >LOCALDISK=/dev/sda >fdisk -l $LOCALDISK | grep -i "^/dev.*fat.*" | cut -d" " -f1 >> >/etc/pmount.allow Ok, you can put this in a command line application as well. >On a side note, are there any plans for NTFS writing support? Many usb >devices are NTFS formatted and it would be nice to be able to write to >them. For now, they are mounted read-only: > ># dmesg >NTFS driver 2.1.29 [Flags: R/O MODULE]. I'm not part of the development team, so I have no idea... Regards Christoph > > >Best regards, >Elio Coutinho > > > >On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 08:22 +0200, Peus, Christoph wrote: > >> This may be a solution, but "patching" the server is not necessary and >probably not so smart, because this cannot be applied to only specific >ThinClients and could be overwritten by future updates of the OTC >server. >> >> Try to create a new application of type command line with Autostart >set to "yes" and the following command (untested): >> sudo sh -c 'echo "/dev/sda2" >> /etc/pmount.allow' >> >> This should do the job as well. (Of course you have to configure your >setup to make this application execute on your clients.) >> >> >> Regards >> Christoph >> > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >------ >vRanger cuts backup time in half-while increasing security. >With the market-leading solution for virtual backup and recovery, >you get blazing-fast, flexible, and affordable data protection. >Download your free trial now. >http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-d2dcopy1 >_______________________________________________ >The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user Private Universität Witten/Herdecke gGmbH Alfred-Herrhausen-Straße 50 D - 58448 Witten Geschäftsführung: Dipl.-Ök. Michael Anders, Prof. Dr. med. Martin Butzlaff Sitz der Gesellschaft: Witten Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Bochum Nr. HRB 8671 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ vRanger cuts backup time in half-while increasing security. With the market-leading solution for virtual backup and recovery, you get blazing-fast, flexible, and affordable data protection. Download your free trial now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user
