Hi all,

I've got a little problem.
I've a NTFS external drive plugged using an eSATA cable.
I allowed my user to mount this partition.
Within a terminal it works well, but with Konqueror or D3lphin, I get a Permission denied response.

Usefull infos :

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Debian: unstable
KDE: 3.5.9

-rwsr-x--- 1 root fuse /usr/bin/ntfs-3g
-rwsr-xr-- 1 root fuse /usr/bin/fusermount
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root /usr/bin/kio_media_mounthelper*

$ ls -l /sbin/mount.ntfs*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g -> /usr/bin/ntfs-3g
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root /sbin/mount.ntfs-fuse -> /usr/bin/ntfsmount


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my user is in the fuse group

fstab line :

[...]
LABEL=HappyData     /media/HappyData    ntfs-3g     rw,users,noauto,uid=1000,umask=007  0       0

drwxrwxr-x 2 root fuse /media/HappyData

Voila, if someone has an idea about what's missing, I'd be glade to know...

Thanks !

dolphin-kde4 has a fix for this problem.

Maybe you can try adding the partitions to automount by entering it into /etc/fstab ?

LinuxIsInnovation wrote:dolphin-kde4 has a fix for this problem.

I mostly use Konqueror, I'm not sure this comes from d3lphin itself

LinuxIsInnovation wrote:Maybe you can try adding the partitions to automount by entering it into /etc/fstab ?

It already is in it. The second part of my CODE is hidden. The fstab is in it.

Strange, the fstab entry seems pretty fine. Try using this instead:

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/dev/sdaX       /media/disk     ntfs-3g     defaults     0       0

But before that, create a folder "disk" inside /media

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fdisk -l

..to see the /dev/sdaX device link for the drive.

I don't think the fstab line is a problem.
When I use the following command as user (id 1000) in a terminal the disk is mounted correctly.

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mount -L HappyData

For me the problem is due to a bad KDE configuration or missing access somewhere. It just cannot point it out.

I have the same problem:
In my main kubuntu installation I can mount external devices (such as flashdrives and USB-HDD) in Dolphin as a user, but in openSUSE installed on second harddrive I can not do this - only as root. Dolphin says something about HAL and insufficient rights.

that means is has to be fixed in HAL

@OP

What distro do you use?
I reported a bug for Kubuntu long time back: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/281587
(which is a duplicate of this bug).
This was fixed for Kubuntu, although I don't know whether it was pushed/reported upstream.

What distro do you use?

I'm using debian.