<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 20, 2007 12:15 AM, Gavin Chester <<a href="mailto:gavin.chester@gmail.com">gavin.chester@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br></div>-snip-<br><div class="Ih2E3d">><br>> Hmm. Well I'm not in front of the machine at the moment but it didn't<br>> seem to do that (hence the reason for asking the question). I did do
<br>> the install from the XFCE iso (see URL below) so maybe there is a<br>> component that is in a bog standard etch install that is not in the<br>> XFCE one.<br><br></div>Ahhh, now all is revealed ;-). The whole thing hinges on your
<br>desktop/window manager. That is, I discovered the hard way that an<br>identical machine running Xfce will not automount usb, but will if<br>started with gnome or kde for a new user session. Sometimes though you<br>can break it for the other window managers and have to make sure the
<br>right packages are installed and working. This came up on another list<br>recently and via google I found someone said it far better than me:<br><br>"There is now a set of utilities out there called "pmount" and "hal"
<br>which provide a more dependable interface so that GNOME and KDE can<br>automatically mount these things. So first, install the packages<br>"pmount" and "hal" (in Debian "hal" depends automatically on "udev", -
<br>hence you will need to be running kernel 2.6 for any of this to work).<br>Then, you will need to add all authorized users to the group "plugdev".<br>Any user in this group will be able to automatically mount a USB
<br>device."<br><br>HTH<br><font color="#888888"><br>Gavin<br></font></blockquote></div><br>Thanks Gavin. It does. This was the very answer I also stumbled upon after searching around last night.<br><br>So now everything is working for my Dad. Just need to get my mum's machine converted over from Vista ….
<br><br>Michael Hunt<br>