Hi
In case it will not solve the problem,can you please send the output of
dmesg after you get the error you mentioned?
Regards
Rami Rosen
On Apr 15, 2013 1:51 AM, "Paul Erickson" <va7nt(a)telus.net> wrote:
On 04/14/2013 03:21 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 04/15/13 05:33, Paul Erickson wrote:
>
>> I have a couple of external disks that I formatted in XFS using F11, I
>> think for data backup. Now with a new F 18 installation, when I plug
>> in the drive, the disk icons appear on the desktop, but when I try to
>> access them, I get an error message stating that the contents cannot be
>> displayed due to not having the necessary permissions.
>>
>> A google search of the archives has not turned up anything so far.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>>
>> If you did a fresh install most likely your UID/GID has changed. Older
> versions started at 500/500 while the latest versions start at 1000/1000
> when users are created.
>
> If you do an "ls -l" at the top of the mount point (directory) you'll
see
> numbers where the username and goupname are normally displayed.
>
> Simply do, as root and from the mount point
>
> chown -R username:groupname
>
Thanks very much. Will try that.
cheers, Paul
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