On 16/02/11 08:37, Chris wrote:
I had a similar problem with my Seagate 500GB external flash drive after a fresh installation to testing/ wheezy. The trick seemed to be to create a specific directory in /media/ for it to be mounted to:Hi everyone, Since I do a normal update, I can't mount my flash drive from nautilus. It works before. The error message is: Unable to mount [device] Not Authorized But if I manually mount using "sudo mount ...", it works fine. I found this post, http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/02/msg01022.html, but I can't go back to the previous version of consolekit because of dependencies. And I still don't understand the problem. I'm using debian testing. Could anyone provide any advice? Thanks.
sudo mkdir /media/flash-drive
Then edit your fstab file so that the device is specifically mounted to
that directory/ mount point.
I also changed the settings for that entry to be "auto" rather than "noauto".
Finally, make sure that you have entered yourself as user into the relevant groups - such as udev and hal and that you have permissions to mount removable drives.
I'm sorry that I don't have a clear recipe for this, but am retracing my own steps to resolve the issue and it did work - I now have the flash drive mounted by the time I logon.
I hope that this helps you out. AG