[K12OSN] USB and Floppy support not working
Petre Scheie
petre at maltzen.net
Mon Feb 26 15:25:33 UTC 2007
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.
>> -------
>> 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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