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DentistDan

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Registered: 2013-01-24

Posts: 10

USB key - access problems

I can mount my 4gb usb using mountbox

/media/usb

I can see the files no problem but I cannot copy files to the disk without 'permission denied'.

I can change to root and all is fine - but it's a pain

my login name is: neoware

How can I get the USB key mounted so I can just access and save the files?

Thanks

Dan

Ceel

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Registered: 2011-04-02

Posts: 1,424

Re: USB key - access problems

Change the owner for /media/usb:

open /media with PCman as root, right click on usb, Properties, Permissions or

open a terminal as root and type

# chown -R neoware /media/usb

DentistDan

Member

Registered: 2013-01-24

Posts: 10

Re: USB key - access problems

I have tried

chmod 777 USB

chown -R neoware:neoware USB

This changes the file permissions

Then I use system tools - mount devices and the permission are mysteriously changed back to root.

DentistDan

Member

Registered: 2013-01-24

Posts: 10

Re: USB key - access problems

O.K. That may have been misleading. I had chmodded and chowned and created so many folders I didn't know what was happening.

In the end I found an easy way

applications - system tools - mount devices

mount selected device on - choose a folder

double click on the drive you want to mount - mount read/write

once it has mounted

double click on the drive again - browse

Please understand these concepts are a little strange for an ex windows user. USB was always just plug 'n' play.