From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Regular user can't mount/unmount mtpfs; root is OK
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 23:52:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140724235215.62a441bf@hactar.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140722222347.GA12850@waltdnes.org>
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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.
--
Neil Bothwick
The Computer is the logical advancement of humankind:
intelligence without morality.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-24 22:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-22 22:23 [gentoo-user] Regular user can't mount/unmount mtpfs; root is OK Walter Dnes
2014-07-24 22:52 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2014-07-24 23:29 ` Walter Dnes
2014-07-24 23:34 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-07-25 9:36 ` Mick
2014-07-25 7:03 ` Helmut Jarausch
2014-07-26 11:56 ` Dark Templar
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2014-07-24 4:59 Walter Dnes
2014-07-25 5:07 ` Samuli Suominen
2014-07-25 6:36 ` Walter Dnes
2014-07-25 9:35 ` Samuli Suominen
2014-07-25 9:47 ` Samuli Suominen
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