[K12OSN] USB and Floppy support not working

[Petre Scheie]

Noting that my previous message was not much help since you're using LDAP, you might see 
the LDA troubleshooting checklist:
http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/LTSP-42-LocalDev#Troubleshooting

Petre

Petre Scheie wrote:
> 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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