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From: Dark Templar <dark_templar@hotbox.ru>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Regular user can't mount/unmount mtpfs; root is OK
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 15:56:22 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53D39766.8010905@hotbox.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140724235215.62a441bf@hactar.digimed.co.uk>

25.07.2014 02:52, Neil Bothwick пишет:
> 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 had problems with mtpfs and switched to simple-mtpfs, which works fine
for me.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-07-26 11:54 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
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 [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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