Re: Gnome requests password to mount NTFS drive
On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 10:19:43 -0400, Rob Owens wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 01:56:51PM +0000, Camaleón wrote:
>> On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 09:25:13 -0400, Rob Owens wrote:
>>
>> > On a fresh Squeeze system, Gnome is asking for the root password when
>> > mounting an NTFS drive (/dev/sda1, which houses Windows OS). ntfs-3g
>> > is installed, but is not being used for some reason.
>>
>> (...)
>>
>> How are you mounting the NTFS volume, at boot time by using and entry
>> in "/etc/fstab" or manually running the "mount" command?
>>
>> OTOH, "ntfs-3g" should be used if writing capabilities are required for
>> NTFS volume.
>>
> It's a laptop I'm setting up for a Linux newbie, so I'm trying to get it
> to mount using the Gnome menus (Places, 50GB Hard Drive).
>
> Writing to NTFS is required for me.
Ah, yes. If you are mounting the drive using Nautilus, it will ask the
root password, that is the expected behavior.
If you want to avoid this you can use "/etc/fstab" and define an static
mount point from there to get the drive mounted under "/windows/C", for
instance, and using ntfs-3g as module for managing this.
Then, create a shorcut in desktop pointing to "/windows/C" so the user
has only to "point&click" to access windows hard disk.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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