So it would appear it's mounting correctly, crew just doesn't give you the nice desktop icons. Maybe that's a setting you can adjust. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Radek Bursztynowski" <radek@bursztynowski.waw.pl> To: "Support list for open source software in schools." <k12osn@redhat.com> Subject: [K12OSN] local device Date: Thu, Aug 1, 2013 5:34 AM Let me correct myself. Using Xfce environment I can see both devices (USB stick and DVD/CD) after changing directory to /media/mu_username/ (file manager), but I can't see local devices' icons. Using GNOME all work normally (including local devices' icons). Best regards, Radek --- Let me add something else. I can't umount these local devices as a user. I can see dialog window with information that only root cant umount. It is true - on thin client, after switching on to shell and "su" command, I can umount theses devices. Notwithstanding, I expected that user can umount theses device in GUI too. Best regards, Radek -- Jeff, Good question. My experience with local device confirms that local device (including DVD/CD) could by managed by fuse mechanism. My experience: My favourite GUI is Xfce. Using Xfce I can see on thin client local USB stick after change the directory to /media/my_username/usb_stick_name, but I don't see DVD/CD device. When I log in with GNOME I can see both icons on my desktop - USB_stick and DVD/CD, and I can use both local devices. So it seems that fuse mechanism doesn't support Xfce environment the best. I switched on in Xfce environment "Running GNOME service within log in" option, but nothing helped. Best regards, Radek --- On 07/30/2013 01:16 PM, Radek Bursztynowski wrote: > Jeff, > > Many thanks for your explanation. I know it. But the same situation is > with USB stick - I can mount it locally on local console and see it > after log in LDM on my redirected server desktop. > > I expected similar mechanizm. Yes, that is true. fuse is leveraged to do some magic and remotely mount the client USB stick on the server. DVD drives aren't quite the same. Take, for example, an audio CD. You can't mount that and export it as a filesystem. So the question really becomes: does LTSP even look for optical devices and try to remotely mount them using fuse? I don't have an answer to that, but IME LTSP5 does not do this. That said I haven't tried connecting a client DVD recently and then setting the group to fuse. Hopefully someone can chime in on that. Jeff _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list K12OSN@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn For more info see <http://www.k12os.org>;;; _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list K12OSN@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn For more info see <http://www.k12os.org>;; _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list K12OSN@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn For more info see <http://www.k12os.org>; _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list K12OSN@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn For more info see <http://www.k12os.org>