[Tfug] Bizarre permissions situation...

[Terence Rudkin]

Jim,

So chmod 777 did not help, humph.   It is common to mount 'media' on /media
but nothing says you must.

YOu could mount it in your home
sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdc1 /home/jim/sandisk

Assuming you have made ~/sandisk

TR



On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 7:52 AM, Terence Rudkin <trudkin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The parent has too restrictive of permissions
> >
> > sudo chmod 777 /media
> >
> > may be extreme but illustrates  the issue
>
> That command didn't help.
>
> I tried:
>
> sudo chown jim /media
>
> ...and it returned with no errors, but nothing actually changed: yet
> again, under "sudo nautilus" it's root ownership, others can read and
> I can't make any changes.
>
> Um...is there any way to fix this?  I need to use this player soon to
> record some audio at a political event...
>
> Jim
>
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