Mounting USB key in Ubuntu Solved

[E K]

Rebooting the machine seem to get it working. For some reason I got
to kill the winbind process that starts at boot time and restart it.

Thanks,
EK

--- E K <ekg_ab-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Hi Ian,
> 
> Besides plugdev, I even tried to add the user to adm, admin,...
> groups.
> 
> Here is the output from id
> 
> id
> uid=10000(lewis) gid=10000(hrpb)
>
groups=4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),104(scanner),112(netdev),113(lpadmin),115(powerdev),117(admin),10000(hrpb),10001
> 
> That should enable it to do pretty much anything to mount a memory
> key. But still it does not work. Same with the audio. Id's starting
> 10000 are id's mapped for samba domain users.
> 
> On the other hand, cd mounting, sudo and all gui sys admin tasks
> work
> fine.
> 
> Cheers,
> EK
> 
> --- Ian Petersen <ispeters-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> > I run a Gentoo system, which is therefore likely to be
> > non-standard.
> > In my case, though, removable media are automatically mounted if
> > the
> > current session is owned by a user in the plugdev group.  I think
> > this
> > is a feature of recent Gnomes.
> > 
> > Ian
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