On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Flavio Costa <flavio.cdc@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Before Gnome 2.28 (I've been using Arch since 2.22, I guess), Gnome used to be able to mount my internal devices (in this case some NTFS partitions I have, and yes use Windows sometimes...) automatically (I just had to grant a permission on a neat GTK interface). I guess that magic used to happen due to a set of softwares working together, those being HAL, DBus, PolicyKit and Gnome.
When Gnome 2.28 came out (and also devicekit-*, the replacement of policykit with polkit and the deprecation of HAL) this neat magic dissapeared and I've looked for many solutions in the forums or in others places but I couldn't found one.
Everytime I want to use those extra NTFS partitions, I have to manually click one the "Places" menu and select the device, after clicking I'm prompted for my root password. I type it and the disk is mounted. But that's boring (all my musics are stored on the NTFS partition, so everytime I want to listen to them I have to do this).
I even managed to supress the prompting for the password but I believe that due to some update that stopped working.
$ cat /etc/polkit-1/localauthority.conf.d/61-custom.conf
[Automount Devices]
Identities=unix-group:storage
Action=org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.*
ResultActive=yes
ResultAny=no
ResultInactive=no
The above doesn't work anymore (I have to enter the password everytime).
So despite of fstab, does anyone knows the solution or a workaround for this problem?
-- Flávio Coutinho da Costa
According to the above config, do you belong to the group storage ? -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Administrator www.itech7.com