On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 07:03:22AM +1100, Graham Williams wrote:
> At any time on one machine (home machines running Debian unstable) I
> allow multiple users to have their X sessions running concurrently
> (e.g., on tty7, tty8, etc). I've not yet figured out how to get
> gnome-volume-manager working happily in this situation.
My initial reaction is "sorry, you loose".
You are in a situation where g-v-m just won't work. By automatically
mounting a device the first user that mounts the device "owns" it,
i.e. only this user and root can unmount this device (it's what the
"user" option does)