Hello.

I switched my desktop manager from Gnome v2.3 and KDE v4.4.5 in my over year old Debian stable box, but I am having problems accessing my secondary HDD (SSD is my primary drive) manually after rebooting/powering up my system. In Gnome v2.3, I can access this old HDD by entering my sudo password. KDE does not even prompt it when accessing these drives in its Dolphin as shown in http://i.imgur.com/tSEbH.gif screen shot/capture. How can I have KDE connect to it like Gnome does? I do not want to automatically mount it at system's boot up since it is a temporary drive. Also, I don't want to go Gnome to mount and then switch to KDE.

Thank you in advance.

Unfortunately it seems that support for mounting drives which need authentication to be mounted was not part of KDE 4.4. I am not sure if this has changed since then, in KDE 4.10 however.

As an attempted workaround, have you tried configuring the /etc/fstab entry for that drive to permit user mounting (and disable automatic mounting)?

bcooksley wrote:Unfortunately it seems that support for mounting drives which need authentication to be mounted was not part of KDE 4.4. I am not sure if this has changed since then, in KDE 4.10 however.

As an attempted workaround, have you tried configuring the /etc/fstab entry for that drive to permit user mounting (and disable automatic mounting)?

Yea, I had to use /etc/fstab but that is annoying since I have to do that for every new drive. Ugh.

Indeed. Unfortunately KDE 4.4.5 is quite old, so it isn't possible to do much other than suggest workarounds at this point. I would suggest an upgrade to KDE 4.10 if at all possible.

bcooksley wrote:Indeed. Unfortunately KDE 4.4.5 is quite old, so it isn't possible to do much other than suggest workarounds at this point. I would suggest an upgrade to KDE 4.10 if at all possible.

Thanks. I will have to wait for Debian to release them in their stable which would be years. Haha.

Alternately if you don't mind being adventurous, you could try a experimental-snapshot from http://qt-kde.debian.net/

bcooksley wrote:Alternately if you don't mind being adventurous, you could try a experimental-snapshot from http://qt-kde.debian.net/

I avoid prereleases. I don't have time to deal with buggy stuff. Stable still has bugs here and there. Too BUSY with life these days. Thanks though.