From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EA9D13877A for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 07:03:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7E92FE152D; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 07:03:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx-out-2.rwth-aachen.de (mx-out-2.rwth-aachen.de [134.130.5.187]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 28FA4E1406 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 07:03:22 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.01,729,1400018400"; d="scan'208";a="253385944" Received: from igpm.igpm.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.161.1]) by mx-2.rz.rwth-aachen.de with ESMTP; 25 Jul 2014 09:03:21 +0200 Received: from numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.161.252]) by igpm.igpm.rwth-aachen.de with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1XAZXF-0002uE-8t for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 09:03:21 +0200 Received: from numa-i (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74CE617EC for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 09:03:22 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 09:03:22 +0200 From: Helmut Jarausch Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Regular user can't mount/unmount mtpfs; root is OK To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20140722222347.GA12850@waltdnes.org> <20140724235215.62a441bf@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20140724235215.62a441bf@hactar.digimed.co.uk> (from neil@digimed.co.uk on Fri Jul 25 00:52:15 2014) X-Mailer: Balsa 2.4.14 Message-Id: <1406271802.8899.0@numa-i> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; DelSp=Yes; Format=Flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 2a7784b4-b72f-4718-a89a-6cac5d0a10ad X-Archives-Hash: 46056a0cd1c8afca22835e4c905a9d3e On 07/25/2014 12:52:15 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 18:23:47 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: >=20 > > I'm a total noobie at mtpfs/FUSE. My "excellent adventure" =20 > started > > yesterday when I got a clearout 7" tablet, and took a sample photo, =20 > and > > tried mounting the tablet... no /dev/sdb to be found anywhere. I =20 > went > > to "Mr. Google" for help, and found out that MTP is the "new and > > improved" way of doing things. >=20 > Improved, maybe, necessary, definitely. The old way of using mass =20 > storage > meant the storage had to be unmounted on the phone first, which could > break running applications. >=20 > > So I installed mtpfs. It works great > > for root, but a regular user can't mount the tablet. The mtpfs =20 > command > > immediately returns to the command prompt, with no error message or =20 > any > > other info. >=20 > 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. >=20 I don't have good experience with jmtpfs. Here, it's dead slow and =20 hangs sometimes (connected to my Galaxy S3 mini). But, I have switched to go-mtpfs. This is really fast and seems to be =20 stable. Since I'm lazy I haven't tried to access without root priviledges. Helmut =