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roytheman Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 4:58 pm Post subject: Dolphin - No write access to partitions and USB drives |
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Hello Gentoo forum,
I am running a recent version of Gentoo (32bit) with the KDE4 desktop (version 4.85) using Dolphin file manager on a desktop computer. I'm fairly certain that udev handles the mounting and not HAL since it is a recent version. When Dolphin is launched, all of my partitions show nicely as well as all of my USB hard drives. I can view the contents of all of these without any problem but as a regular user, I do not have write access to anything except my home folder and if I open Dolphin in root, I have write access to everything except for my USB hard drives and one Windows partition. So this poses a question - how can I have write access to everything as a regular user as well as a root user?
I have searched and searched for an answer but I haven't been able to solve this problem so taking it to a forum is my last resort.
If anybody will be kind enough to steer me in the right direction I will be most grateful.
Sincerely,
Roy |
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gerard27 Advocate
Joined: 04 Jan 2004 Posts: 2377 Location: Netherlands
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Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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Did you install kde-base/solid?
And are you in the USB group?
Gerard. _________________ To install Gentoo I use sysrescuecd.Based on Gentoo,has firefox to browse Gentoo docs and mc to browse (and edit) files.
The same disk can be used for 32 and 64 bit installs.
You can follow the Handbook verbatim.
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roytheman Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, I installed Solid and I am in the USB group.
Roy |
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gerard27 Advocate
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Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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Do you get a pop-up window when you plug something in a USB port?
Gerard. _________________ To install Gentoo I use sysrescuecd.Based on Gentoo,has firefox to browse Gentoo docs and mc to browse (and edit) files.
The same disk can be used for 32 and 64 bit installs.
You can follow the Handbook verbatim.
http://www.sysresccd.org/Download |
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roytheman Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, I get a popup when I plug a drive into a USB port. When I try to create a blank folder on that drive, it says "could not make folder" which means it does not have write access. |
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gerard27 Advocate
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Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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I am out of ideas. _________________ To install Gentoo I use sysrescuecd.Based on Gentoo,has firefox to browse Gentoo docs and mc to browse (and edit) files.
The same disk can be used for 32 and 64 bit installs.
You can follow the Handbook verbatim.
http://www.sysresccd.org/Download |
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roytheman Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 12:13 am Post subject: |
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Thanks anyway, gerard82.
I gave some wrong information in my original post. All of my USB drives are ntfs, not just some of them. After I later installed ntfs3g, I now have read and write permissions as a regular user on all USB drives but only as a root user for my ext3 partitions. If I want read and write permissions on my ext3 partitions I must be root. Is there a way that I can access these ext3 partitions with write permissions as a regular user?
Thanks,
Roy |
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