Hello.
I'm new to the magical world of FreeBSD, but I already have worked with Net-/OpenBSD several times, here is my very first question: How do I make my BSD machine automatically mount USB sticks, CDs, DVDs, whatever ...
I've installed Xorg, Gnome2 and stuff like Firefox, Pidgin, Abiword, .. so far. Here's my uname -a:
I do have HAL and DBUS installed, and they're also mentioned in the /etc/rc.conf:
... but I guess, the user does have to have special permissions to automount stuff without root privileges. When I simply click an attached HDD (formatted with vfat!), I get the following error message:
What do I have to do now?
I'm new to the magical world of FreeBSD, but I already have worked with Net-/OpenBSD several times, here is my very first question: How do I make my BSD machine automatically mount USB sticks, CDs, DVDs, whatever ...
I've installed Xorg, Gnome2 and stuff like Firefox, Pidgin, Abiword, .. so far. Here's my uname -a:
Code:
FreeBSD styx 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0: Thu Feb 17 02:41:51 UTC 2011 root@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64I do have HAL and DBUS installed, and they're also mentioned in the /etc/rc.conf:
Code:
styx# cat /etc/rc.conf
# -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Sun Sep 11 23:00:08 2011
# Created: Sun Sep 11 23:00:08 2011
# Enable network daemons for user convenience.
# Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
# This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
hostname="styx"
ifconfig_sk0="DHCP"
keymap="german.cp850"
sshd_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES"
dbus_enable="YES"
gnome_enable="YES"
gdm_enable="YES"... but I guess, the user does have to have special permissions to automount stuff without root privileges. When I simply click an attached HDD (formatted with vfat!), I get the following error message:
Code:
[B]Unable to mount 320.1 GB Media[/B]
DBus error org.gtk.Private.RemoteVolumeMonitor.Failed:
An operation is already pendingWhat do I have to do now?
