Bug#609201: automatically mount ntfs usb disk in gnome

[Frederic Van Espen]

I seem to be running into the same issue as Christian. Upon plugging in
a ntfs usb disk I get the same gnome window that pops up:

Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
Error opening '/dev/sdb1': Permission denied
Failed to mount '/dev/sdb1': Permission denied
Please check '/dev/sdb1' and the ntfs-3g binary permissions,
and the mounting user ID. More explanation is provided at
http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#unprivileged

It looks like I'm in the correct groups (correct me if I'm wrong).

fes@fes-laptop:~$ groups
fes adm disk cdrom floppy audio dip video plugdev netdev bluetooth
lpadmin fuse scanner

Mounting manually on the commandline with sudo works fine.

This happens on a freshly installed squeeze i386 system.

Cheers,

Frederic

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[Frederic Van Espen]

I was able to fix this. Apparently the installer added a line to
/etc/fstab which I had not noticed:

/dev/sdb1 /media/usb0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

I assume that this was the usb flash drive connected to my laptop during
the installation. This was necessary to include some firmware files for
my wireless card.

Removing the line above from /etc/fstab resolved the issue for me.
Plugging in an external usb drive automatically mounts now.

Hope this helps someone else out.

Cheers,

Frederic