mounting a digicam - must be root??? - Tech Support Forums

samwichse · December 30th, 2003, 03:00 AM

Ok, this is driving me nuts.

I've got a fuji digital camera which mounts just fine as root, access and all, but I'm looking to create a desktop link that can be easily mounted/unmounted by a desktop icon like the floppy drive more or less.

The problem is, the dang thing keeps telling me "only root can do that" when I double click the desktop icon I made (KDE btw). The fstab entry looks like this:

Code:

/dev/sda1               /mnt/camera             vfat    noauto,owner,gid=200,umask=200  0 0

I made a directory /mnt/camera, the distro is Fedora Core 1. What am I doing wrong?

Sam

CMonster · December 30th, 2003, 04:20 AM

/dev/sda1 /mnt/camera vfat noauto,user 0 0

works for me in SuSE and Mandrake, seems to me I needed the gid and umask in RH9 in order to mount NTFS

nukes · December 30th, 2003, 09:20 PM

yeah, the user bit lets you mount it as any user.

samwichse · January 5th, 2004, 03:43 PM

Well, I've tried every suggestion and combination from this thread and it just will not work.

nukes · January 5th, 2004, 04:45 PM

do:

Code:

ls -l /mnt/camera

You should have write access to the directory.
If it shows as root/root, then (as root)

Code:

chown root:users /mnt/camera
chmod g+rwx /mnt/camera

You can substitute "users" for whatever group you want, make sure your normal username is in the group.
ie.
It shouldn't look like this:

Code:

drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root           48 Jan  5 20:47 camera

It should look like:

Code:

root@nexus root # chown root:users camera 
root@nexus root # chmod g+rwx camera
root@nexus root # ls -l
total 2
drwxrwxr-x    2 root     users          48 Jan  5 20:47 camera

If you don't understand, pm me.

samwichse · January 5th, 2004, 06:18 PM

Well, I had already changed the owner of the directory to the user who will mount the camera like so:

chown -R username:username /mnt/camera

And then I just gave everybody rwx access (cause come on, the camera's gotta be in hand anyhow):

chmod -R 777 /mnt/camera

nukes · January 6th, 2004, 12:44 PM

Got read/write access to the device node?

CMonster · January 6th, 2004, 02:28 PM

I had a similar problem with REDHAT 9 when mounting NTFS partition, here was my solution:

Code:

/dev/hda1   /mnt/WinXP   auto  ro,noauto,user,uid=500,gid=500,umask=007  0 0

-modify as you see fit of course, I don't see the need for write access to the media itself so I would go with ro

Code:

/dev/sda1               /mnt/camera             vfat    noauto,user,uid=500,gid=500,umask=007  0 0

CMonster · January 8th, 2004, 03:40 AM

bump -did you ever figure it out?

samwichse · January 8th, 2004, 08:17 PM

Well, I've been on two separate chat sessions with the owner of the computer (though note, I do have this exact same camera, but have yet to try and get it working on my computer back home in TN) trying to hash this out, but I've not been able to hook up a third, but left the instructions in an email.

I'm just a' waiting for a response myself.

Sam