Share USB HD and automount it

[funky_D]

hello all,
I've just migrated from mandriva, and I'm happy with it. my system is much faster and intuitive.
but unfortunately there are things that kubuntu is less intuitive.
i can't seem to automount my USB Hard Drive and share it to other windows desktops access it.
i've turning round and round with tutorials and i'm affraid to screw things "even more".

i use K8.04.1, (KDE 4.0)
i'm not interested migrating to 4.1 (few bugs and much slower overall system)....

thanks all!

Dino Rubio

[funky_D]

Re: Share USB HD and automount it

i found a solution!
i installed ubuntu!

[dibl]

Re: Share USB HD and automount it

Huh -- that's odd. You're saying your USB stick auto-mounts in Ubuntu, but not Kubuntu, same version? Hmmmmmmmmmmm!

[pwabrahams]

USB automount problems

I too am running Kubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron and am having automount problems with my USB memory stick. Apparently such problems have a long history. People post solutions that worked for them and don't work for others.

When I insert the memory stick, the system recognizes it:

[  88.710790] usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[  88.817529] usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual
[  88.854755] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[  88.856828] scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[  88.858682] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[  88.858689] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[  88.859344] usb-storage: device found at 3
[  88.859348] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[ 186.042355] usb-storage: device scan complete
[ 186.044086] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access   Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 186.057914] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 7902208 512-byte hardware sectors (4046 MB)
[ 186.058549] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 186.058555] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
[ 186.058561] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 186.061298] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 7902208 512-byte hardware sectors (4046 MB)
[ 186.061930] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 186.061936] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
[ 186.061941] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 186.061953] sdb: sdb1
[ 186.211859] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 186.211947] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0

However, the drive doesn't mount.

Until I encountered this problem, I had the following entry in /etc/fstab:

/dev/sdb1 /media/USB1 auto users,atime,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0

I don't remember the history of how it got there, however. I had the same problem before and after removing it. I removed it because it doesn't seem correct: what if there are two memory sticks?

Advice would be welcome.