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 4DC3413877A for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 22:52:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7148CE0C8B; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 22:52:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAE5AE0C6F for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 22:52:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hactar.digimed.co.uk (hactar.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2A4CC20A90 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 23:52:20 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 23:52:15 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Regular user can't mount/unmount mtpfs; root is OK Message-ID: <20140724235215.62a441bf@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20140722222347.GA12850@waltdnes.org> References: <20140722222347.GA12850@waltdnes.org> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.10.1-119-g7fbc83 (GTK+ 2.24.24; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Sig_/.ZMsD1579zU6ap2o=c=73yZ"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: a9676e62-3e47-4818-8bbe-7316d89f3458 X-Archives-Hash: 3130b8cc7a1d5b5ad4b7b70be923bab9 --Sig_/.ZMsD1579zU6ap2o=c=73yZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick The Computer is the logical advancement of humankind: intelligence without morality. --Sig_/.ZMsD1579zU6ap2o=c=73yZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlPRjiMACgkQum4al0N1GQMxdACgkiXY0gHqkfGEHJBqyCGas4Jw WLcAmgOorwtcjlrfIS/q8wO9tuJ3dUhd =Ygqk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/.ZMsD1579zU6ap2o=c=73yZ--