mounting a digicam - must be root???

[samwichse]

Ok, that STILL gives the same error (the user is actually UID=501, GID=501).

There must be something basic I'm missing here.

I've given 777 access to the mounting dir (/mnt/camera).

I'm not sure what you mean by "Got read/write access to the device node?" I've never had to mess with that before to get things to mount read/write for users?

[samwichse]

Holy crapoli, the whole time it was a KDE problem.

When you make a new drive, it for some reason makes that icon/link on the desktop default to root ownership with rw------- permissions.

I just had her chown/chmod it to the right user and bingo! It's Guy Faulks Day!

Thanks to you all for all the help and patience

Sam

[nukes]

Glad you got it sorted
I assumed you were mounting it from the command line :/

I'm not sure what you mean by "Got read/write access to the device node?" I've never had to mess with that before to get things to mount read/write for users?

I was referring to the /dev/sda1 character device file. You wouldn't (shouldn't) normally have to mess with it, but i was clutching at straws.

[Redwolf]

Glad you got it working!

Just a little question. You would use the same method to maount an Archos Multimedia Jukebox, right? I tried mounting my friend's on my machien a few days ago, but it never worked. I later found the port I was plugging into was dead (my USB2 port, *sniff* ). I was doing pretty much what you all said to do for this camera, and trying other device nodes as well.