not authorised - intermittant

[madcook]

Hello,

Following the unexpected dead of a hard drive IU am attempting to put my data onto a 2T hard drive using both cdrom and usb devices, but I keep being told I am "Not authorised to preform operation.

Yet if I log out and back in the same devices mount without problems.

Though minutes later I will be told I am not authorised again.

I'm using LDME mageia 3

Can someone tell me what code will fix this oroblem, please

[wintpe]

im not a user of lxde so cant tell if that is behind the perceived intermittent permissions problems.

But you should with a little extra knowledge be able to find out, im assuming nothing about your knowledge .

when you mount the 2tb drive, is it formatted to a linux file system or a windows , ie ext3 or 4 or ntfs.

this matters as it indicates to me whether you are using fuse to mount it or unix mount command, which so far you have not said.

if you are prompted for the root password when you attempt to mount it usually means its a unix mount (in kde anyway) and if not its fuse.

now if its unix mounted, it may be that the filesystem mount point is not permission for you to write.

so firstly run "df -k" or "mount" via a terminal to see where the filesystem is mounted, if it is at all.

it maybe that you cant mount and that's where the operation is not permitted is coming from.

each disk, cdrom or usb device needs to be mounted on a directory, thats how unix/linux works.

again check the output of the above commands.

mageia by default tries to mount everything unless told otherwise via command line under /media.

it will create a directory that matches either the label on the filesystem, of the device you are automounting or the uuid of the device.

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cd /media/pathtodevicemount

first as your user,

then "touch test"



did that work, if not change your id to root and try again

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su -
passwd:

cd /media/pathtodevicemount

touch test



did that work ok.

if so you need to change the permissions on the device

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chmod 777 /media/pathtodevice



now try again

regards peter