Re: [K12OSN] USB and Floppy support not working

[Petre Scheie <petre maltzen net>]

I had a similar experience recently: Months ago, Local Device Access (LDA) was working 
fine for me.  A few months elapsed in which LDA was not used by anyone.  Then I went to 
use it to access some CDROMs and got the same behavior you describe: the icons appear, 
but when clicked on, they're empty.  I 'fixed' the problem by putting all the user IDs 
into the fuse group.  This is a small installation, so it's not a problem.  Eric made 
some changes to the LDA code such that putting users into the fuse group isn't necessary 
(at the expense of a slightly lower security threshold).  I keep this box updated, so my 
guess is that something along the way broke that modification.  I didn't have time to 
delve into what actually broke.  Try putting a user into the fuse group and see if it 
makes a difference.

Petre

Calvin Park wrote:
> Sorry, this is actually the second time I sent this. I realized before 
> that I sent it from an address that wasn't a member of the list, so it's 
> probably waiting for moderation. So I thought I'd go ahead and send this 
> on through.
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> Hi all,
>  
> We’ve been having a bit of a problem with out K12LTSP setup here. Back 
> in late January local device support just…stopped working. I vaguely 
> remember that this was after a bunch of updates, but I’m not 100% 
> sure. I know, that’s not really helpful. Anyway, when you insert a USB 
> stick the folder icon appears on the user’s desktop but no files are 
> listed when the user double clicks the folder. In going through some of 
> the archives I was thinking this had to do with ltspfs-insecure. I’ve 
> started/restarted it multiple times with no luck. I also read a bit 
> about the fuse group. I was prepared to add all users to that group, but 
> we authenticate against an ADS and I’m not really clear on how to map 
> windows groups to unix groups. I thought I had figured it out after 
> diving into the samba documentation but to no avail. So, my question…
>  
> Should I try to reinstall the ltspfs package, could it be possible that 
> ltspfs-insecure is broken on our system?
> OR
> Should I just bit the bullet and try to figure out how to map a windows 
> group to the unix group fuse in order to get things working again (and 
> if so, could someone point me in the right direction)?
> OR
> Am I headed in the opposite direction of what I should be looking into, 
> in other words – does it have nothing to do with permissions and 
> whatnot and some small setting in a conf file somewhere just needs changed?
>  
> Thanks in advance!
> -Calvin
>
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