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vlahonick

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Registered: 2011-12-03

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NTFS-3G Problem - Can't mount external HDD as user

Hi all,

I am having trouble with ntfs-3g. I can't mount my external hdd (automatically) as simple user. I can do it manually as root and everything works fine but is not what i want. I prefer to do be able to manipulate files as user. Ofc i can gksu thunar anytime but still is not the same.

I google about it and i even found some threads here but nothing has work for me so far. And i can't find a simple and yet detailed step by step guide to compile it myself (ntfs-3g with fuse support). The tuxera documentation is pretty basic on this or i might couldn't find what i wanted

Anyway i tried some other stuff like chown root $(which ntfs-3g), chmod 4755 $(which ntfs-3g) and adding the user "vlahonick" in the fuse group but still nothing.

Here is a screenshot of the error i am getting when i try to mount the external hdd as user:

Any link to a step by step tutorial for solving the problem would be awesome!

Thanks

Last edited by vlahonick (2012-08-28 10:13:19)

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Unia

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Registered: 2010-07-17

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Re: NTFS-3G Problem - Can't mount external HDD as user

Try editing /etc/fuse.conf and uncomment user-allow-other:

# Allow non-root users to specify the 'allow_other' or 'allow_root'
# mount options.
#
user_allow_other

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vlahonick

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Re: NTFS-3G Problem - Can't mount external HDD as user

@Unia

Did it, still nothing

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Unia

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Registered: 2010-07-17

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Re: NTFS-3G Problem - Can't mount external HDD as user

Did you reboot? Just checkin'

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vlahonick

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Registered: 2011-12-03

Posts: 347

Re: NTFS-3G Problem - Can't mount external HDD as user

Yes i did.

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