Guest account needs adminstrator's name/password to save to external harddrive.

My brother has a guest account on my iMac. He now has an external harddrive to save his home folder to now and again so he can back-up his music and pictures etc, but each time he attempts to do so he is asked for the adminstrator's name and password. Why is this? Can it be changed? And if so, how?

I'm having a similar problem, since the 10.5.1 upgrade (I downloaded the 110MB version, as Apple readily admits that there are problems when using Software Update for upgrades).
I ran Disk Utility to repair permissions on my boot drive, and it prompted me for my administrator password (something that I've only had to do since the upgrade to 10.5). This time, the user name was blank (usually it fills in the user name with the account name I'm logged in under). I entered the information, and got the error. Double checked everything, and still no luck. After a third attempt, I was told I had to wait a while before trying again.
I'm hoping there's some simple fix or something I can easily to type in. I don't want to wait a few more weeks for Apple to release another patch, and I don't want to have to step back to an even more unstable version so I can use Disk Utility.
~Trilo~

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Needed disk space, bought an external harddrive and

Just dragged the icon for my hard drive to the icon for the back up.
It is a packard bell and I used the disk utility to erase and set it up for mac.
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So your laptop hard drive is called "Macintosh HD"
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