Re: [gentoo-user] Regular user can't mount/unmount mtpfs; root is OK

[Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>]

On 07/25/2014 12:52:15 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 18:23:47 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> 
> >   I'm a total noobie at mtpfs/FUSE.  My "excellent adventure"  
> started
> > yesterday when I got a clearout 7" tablet, and took a sample photo,  
> and
> > tried mounting the tablet... no /dev/sdb to be found anywhere.  I  
> went
> > to "Mr. Google" for help, and found out that MTP is the "new and
> > improved" way of doing things.
> 
> Improved, maybe, necessary, definitely. The old way of using mass  
> storage
> meant the storage had to be unmounted on the phone first, which could
> break running applications.
> 
> > So I installed mtpfs.  It works great
> > for root, but a regular user can't mount the tablet.  The mtpfs  
> command
> > immediately returns to the command prompt, with no error message or  
> any
> > other info.
> 
> I has problems with mtpfs and switched to jmtpfs, which works much
> better. Or you can install SSHd on the tablet and use scp/sshfs.
> 

I don't have good experience with jmtpfs. Here, it's dead slow and  
hangs sometimes
(connected to my Galaxy S3 mini).
But, I have switched to go-mtpfs. This is really fast and seems to be  
stable.

Since I'm lazy I haven't tried to access without root priviledges.
Helmut