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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to mount disk for non-root accounts? Post 302110969 by siegfried on Saturday 17th of March 2007 01:58:49 AM
Old 03-17-2007
Still cannot read files on debian

I'm confused as I cannot detect the pattern yet. The solution of putting "-o uid=siegfried" did solve the problem on one distribution and I thought I had the problem solved. I think I was able to use it on ubuntu to burn a CD using nautilus.

But now I am on debian etch and I tried that trick again with

mount ... -o uid=siegfried,username=siegfried

and emacs comes back and says the file is not readable. So then I have to switch to my xterm running in root and copy the file from the samba share to a local copy where I can edit it in emacs.

So what else do I have to do so emacs can read and write files on the samba share? Root can do it but the siegfried account cannot. The siegfried account can see the file names and traverse the directories, however. That is progress!
Thanks,
Siegfried
 

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ACTIVITY-LOG-MANAGER(1) 				      General Commands Manual					   ACTIVITY-LOG-MANAGER(1)

NAME
activity-log-manager - configure activity logging behavior SYNOPSIS
zeitgeist-global-privacy [OPTIONS] DESCRIPTION
activity-log-manager is a tool for easily setting up blacklists, temporarily stopping all logging and accessing other privacy-related con- trols related to your activity log. OPTIONS
The program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with options starting with two dashes (`--'). A summary of options is included below. --version Shows the version number and exits. -h, --help Shows a short help message listing all supported options and exits. SEE ALSO
zeitgeist-daemon, gnome-activity-journal BUGS
Please report any bugs on https://bugs.launchpad.net/history-manager. AUTHORS
Manish Sinha <manishsinha@ubuntu.com> Seif Lotfy <seif@lotfy.com> Siegfried Gevatter <siegfried@gevatter.com> Stefano Candori <stefano.candori@gmail.com> LICENSE
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