Baffling situation

[Joe Smith]

Norm wrote:
> If I boot tp level 3 and do some command line admin stuff then switch to 
> a user account and continue to open  a gui interface my thumb drive is 
> not permitted to mount. ...

How exactly do you "continue to open  a gui interface"?

You may need to formally switch to runlevel 5 and log in in order to get 
everything in place to manage the auto-mounting and permissions.

<Joe