Can't Access Other Hard Drives in Storage Media.

[Pepse]

I am running Kubuntu 10.10 Maverick Trinity and I can't access my other hard drives when in Storage Media. I just get a "Permission Denied". I looked in the Properties of the hard drives and turned on Mount Automatically and in File System Specific Mount Options I did "Journaling: All Data" and I still can't access them. Any idea what I am missing?

Of course 10.10 Trinity gives me the KDE 3.5.x desktop.

Pepse.

[dibl]

Re: Can't Access Other Hard Drives in Storage Media.

I am running Kubuntu 10.10 Maverick Trinity and I can't access my other hard drives when in Storage Media. I just get a "Permission Denied".

I haven't seen a KDE 3.5 desktop in at least 2 years, so I'll have to answer a little bit "generic". The error message means "you are not root". The default arrangement for Linux (i.e. upon completion of installation) is that root owns all devices, but can give users ownership of directories on the devices. My advice is to leave it this way.

So, I think with KDE 3.5 you can do Alt-F2 "kdesudo konqueror" with no quote marks and bring up Konqueror, and browse to those pesky drives, right? Do you have user data in folders on those drives? If not, you should make them. If so, then browse to a data folder, right-click it, choose the "Properties" tab, and change the owner and group to your user, and put an "X" in the box that says "apply to subdirectories".

You can also do this with Krusader (the red "root mode" Krusader that installs in "System").

I hope this helps.

[Pepse]

Re: Can't Access Other Hard Drives in Storage Media.

Okay, I went to System Menu - Storage Media and did "ALT F2" and I get a Run Command box that states Enter the name of the application you want to run or the URL you want to view. And of course I am in " system:/media-Konqueror " I think I am in the wron place?

Pepse.

[dibl]

Re: Can't Access Other Hard Drives in Storage Media.

Okay, I went to System Menu - Storage Media and did "ALT F2" ...

No need to navigate in the menus. On any KDE desktop, Alt-F2 brings up the "Run" command window. You type in the name of your desired application, and then it is launched when you press Enter. "kdesudo konqueror" will launch konqueror with super user privileges, which you need only for this operation to change the permissions on your data directories on the other hard drives. Once konqueror is running, then use konqueror to navigate to /media/disk-2 or whatever is the name of the other drive(s).

[Pepse]

Re: Can't Access Other Hard Drives in Storage Media.

Okay, I must be missing something. It sorta works. The way it works is I ALT-F2 type in kdesudo konqueror then go to Storage media then click on a hard drive, such as SDC1, and it says Permission Denied, so then I go back to the Konqueror desktop that comes up with the ALT-F2 command, then I click on Storage Media then in the Location Bar I type system:/media/sdc1 hit enter and I am in that hard drive. I gotta do the same to view the other hard drive. That is the only way it works. When I close out of all that the session is done. If I need to go back then I gotta do all those steps again. Is that the right way? Before I never had to go through this. All I had to do is click on a hard drive and I was in.

Pepse.