[K12OSN] Thumbdrives not recognized by Centos5 server

[Doug Simpson]

Are these formatted NTFS? May not work if they are. . .Others may have more information. . .

If they are NTFS. . . backup the data somewhere, reformat to FAT32 and then put the data back. Winders won't care but they will likely work fine on both systems after that.

Doug

Doug Simpson
Technology Specialist
De Queen Public Schools
De Queen, AR
simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us

>>> Nils Breunese <nils at breun.nl> 10/2/2007 1:02 PM >>>
Alan Hodson wrote:

> The students at one of the middle schools where we have a 30 user
> thin-client lab almost linched me when their PC formatted thumbdrives
> appeared on the desktopn, but not the content of the work they had  
> saved
> using home and standalone PCs. I need some help here. Name of  
> thumbdrive
> appears on the desktop and inside the "Drives" folder, but not the
> contents. Mounting the traditional way is not doing it... Help!

I have a K12LTSP 5EL (CentOS 5) 64-bit server and thumbdrives are  
working fine. No need to mount them manually, it's all done using  
FUSE. I wouldn't know where to start troubleshooting if the drive  
appears on the desktop, but doesn't seem to contain anything. Maybe  
some FUSE logs? Are these FAT32-formatted drives?

Nils Breunese.