[K12OSN] Thumbdrives not recognized by Centos5 server

[Sonja Gonzalez]

I have 2 comments...

1. We have our students buy their own thumb drives and most work just fine. Several students with SanDisk Cruzer thumb drives reported issues with certain sizes of these drives (smaller ones are the problem... over 2GB seems to work fine.) I'm running Edubuntu 7.04, not K12LTSP, but might be a related problem. I've seen the issue on many forums but no solutions. Since other brands work fine for me.... Mr. Hodson, you might want to try another brand might to see if it will bandaid the issue for you until a solution is found.

2. If it's a permission thing, here are steps to give all users permission to the fuse module:

   a. sudo chmod a+x /usr/bin/fusermount

   b. modify /etc/udev/rules.d/45-fuse.rules such that:  MODE="666"
   
   c. run  sudo /etc/init.d/udev restart
   
   d. sudo chmod 666 /dev/fuse 


HTH,

Sonja
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Sonja Gonzalez
Director of Technology
Ellis School
432 Main Street
Fremont, NH 03044
603.895.2511 x603

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nils Breunese" <nils at breun.nl>
To: "Support list for open source software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 2, 2007 2:02:53 PM (GMT-0500) America/New_York
Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Thumbdrives not recognized by Centos5 server

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.