[K12OSN] Accessing removable media on thinclient??

[Nathan Sinton]

Take a look at:

http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/LocalDrives

-Nathan


On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 02:54:14 -0600, Steve Honeycutt
<steve.honeycutt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 22:07:48 -1000, Byron Kapali <bklinux at verizon.net> wrote:
> > Aloha All,
> > Noobie question: Is there a way to use the removable media (floppy,
> > cdrom, usb) on the thin client while logged in to the K12LTSP server?
> >
> > Example:  I boot the thin client from a universal boot floppy to create
> > the lts session.  I remove the boot disk.  A student logs in and wants
> > to work on a file that is on the floppy.  After inserting the floppy
> > disk, no icon appears to indicate that the floppy disk is accessible.
> > What do I need to do?
> >
> > Byron Kapali
> > Hilo High School
> >
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> 
> This will be very rough around the edges Byron... so stay tuned for
> more precise guidance from a more experienced user.
> 
> I believe that the user will have to open a terminal window and run a
> command along the lines of -
> 
> for windows file system
> mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> 
> for linux file system - do
> mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> 
> There could be issues of users (other than su) not having privledges
> of being able to mount the floppy drive which are default
> configurations at install time - that could be thwarted by editing a
> configuration file... one which I couldn't tell you.
> 
> Actually, I just googled and found a link that will show you how to
> allow users to mount a floppy drive...
> http://www.linuxheadquarters.com/howto/basic/floppy.shtml
> 
> Hope that helps in some way...
> 
> --
> Best Regards,
> 
> Steve
> www.slicehaven.com
> 
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