Permissions problem mounting usb hard drives

[DarkTygur]

I have two usb hard drives, and I can't mount them without going to System Settings -> Advanced Tab -> Disk & Filesystems -> Administrator Mode, putting in my password, and then mounting them there. If I just open Dolphin, head over to media:/ and then click on them, they won't mount, complaining "Permissions denied". Mounting the long way after putting my password in allows me to get to the files with no further problems.

My question is - where is such access defined? I want to just double-click on them and have them automatically mount.

[Snowhog]

Re: Permissions problem mounting usb hard drives

Open a console and type:

groups

You should have a listing similar, if not exactly, like this:

paul adm dialout cdrom floppy audio dip video plugdev scanner lpadmin admin netdev powerdev

The first entry is your user name (mine above is paul). The rest identify the groups you are a member of. Is plugdev listed?

[DarkTygur]

Re: Permissions problem mounting usb hard drives

Yes, it is

[DarkTygur]

Re: Permissions problem mounting usb hard drives

I fixed it. I edited /etc/fstab
It had multiple entries for the same drives - some of them with "nousers" and some with "users". That's probably what was confusing things. While I suppose I could've edited the ones there, I just removed them all and started fresh. Everything's good now.

[Snowhog]

Re: Permissions problem mounting usb hard drives

I fixed it. I edited /etc/fstab
It had multiple entries for the same drives - some of them with "nousers" and some with "users".

Yep. That would have caused the problem!