[nmglug] remote drive permissions

Sam Noble s at mnoble.net
Wed Apr 30 11:29:57 PDT 2008


On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 13:47 -0600, BrianO'Keefe wrote:
> I was setting up a printer and I must have mucked up ownerships
> somewhere as I cannot mount or unmount a USB drive that I have had for
> some time.Formerly I would hotplug the drive and the volumes mounted
> right onto  the desktop. Now I have to launch a file manager with sudo
> and then I can mount the volumes. I cannot unmount them from the desktop
> either.
> Running Ubuntu 6.06. A simple fix to allow me to be owner or change
> permissions would be great. I should know this by now but with my
> deteriorating mind I'm at a loss.

make sure you are still in the plugdev group.

$id
will give you a list.

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