[SOLVED] Openbox - how to mount/umount partition with Nautilus?

archiebald · 2010-02-19 09:34:12

I am trying Openbox a little but I have problem with Nautilus. I have two other partitions which I mount occasionally from left side of pane in Nautilus. Now when I am trying to do that in Openbox, I get "Unable to mount foobar, Authentication is required" message.
I tried PCmanFM and I can mount partitions without problem, but I need Nautilus to get it to work.

Last edited by archiebald (2010-02-25 18:24:47)

na12 · 2010-02-19 11:08:03

Why are you using nautilus with openbox? Anyway,you can put your partitions in fstab.

archiebald · 2010-02-19 11:48:02

I try to use Nautilus with Openbox because I need to mount/umount partitions from other internal hard drives with simple click on left sidepane.

Also because of Dropbox integration with Nautilus, I know for other dropbox version independent of Nautilus by the way.

Meyithi · 2010-02-19 11:54:57

archiebald wrote:

I try to use Nautilus with Openbox because I need to mount/umount partitions from other internal hard drives with simple click on left sidepane.
Also because of Dropbox integration with Nautilus, I know for other dropbox version independent of Nautilus by the way.

Thunar/Thunar-Volman will do that for you as well - why not just use Openbox within Gnome instead of metacity? Using Nautilus in Openbox is a bit weird.

Anyway, use consolekit to start your openbox session:

exec ck-launch-session openbox-session

That should work, AFAIK GDM calls to consolekit as well so nautilus shouldn't behave strangely with it.

Last edited by Meyithi (2010-02-19 11:55:29)

na12 · 2010-02-19 12:35:18

Also PCManFM works pretty nice with mount/unmount from sidepane for me.

Last edited by na12 (2010-02-19 12:36:54)

anonymous_user · 2010-02-19 15:22:10

@Meyithi - Afaik Thunar doesn't show you partitions from other internal drives.

na12 · 2010-02-24 15:03:35

I think you need to install gksu.

archiebald · 2010-02-25 18:24:29

I have found solution. It works!

edit: /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.policy

find:

<action id="org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.filesystem-check-system-internal">
<description>Check file system of a system-internal device</description>
<description xml:lang="da">Check fil system for en intern enhed</descriptio$
<message>Authentication is required to check the file system on the device<$
<message xml:lang="da">Autorisering er påkrævet for at checke fil systemet $
<defaults>
<allow_any>no</allow_any>
<allow_inactive>no</allow_inactive>
<allow_active>auth_admin_keep</allow_active>
</defaults>
</action>

and replace: <allow_active>auth_admin_keep</allow_active>

with this: <allow_active>yes</allow_active>

Because Nautilus likes to take control of desktop, this is useful for someone who doesn't know how to change this behaviour:

# Disable Nautilus desktop.

gconftool-2 -s -t bool /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop false &

# Do not let Nautilus set the background image.

gconftool-2 -s -t bool /desktop/gnome/background/draw_background false &

This solution is useful for all environments where you want or need to use Nautilus.

I forgot to add, that there must be GDM, else, I can't see unmounted partitions in Nautilus. I need to figure out, how to see unmounted partitions without GDM.

na12 wrote:

I think you need to install gksu.

I don't think that I will run file manager as root.:D

Last edited by archiebald (2010-02-25 20:36:02)

qumran · 2010-12-12 21:28:17

Thanks! Had the same problem and this solution worked perfectly for me! ;D

archiebald · 2010-12-12 21:36:47

qumran wrote:

Thanks! Had the same problem and this solution worked perfectly for me! ;D

You welcome. I'm glad that solution I have found somewhere and posted here, helps.

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[SOLVED] Openbox - how to mount/umount partition with Nautilus?

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