Mounting drives

Fairly generic Linux question but does my non-root user have to belong to any specific groups to be able to mount the disk drive and usb drives?
Whenever I try to access one as my non-root user I get a "Not Authorized" message box (in GNOME).

Install sudo and visudo to add your users/groups to use mount.
sudo mount /dev/sdxy /mount/point

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How to remove a mounted drive at startup in a mobile account, using netinfo

How does one remove an mounted drive at startup in a mobile account, using netinfo?
One of the user automatically mounts a network drive on her new intel Macbook in her portable account. Trouble is that the network drive is only available on the intranet. So when she is on the road, it take the Macbook very long 3-4 minutes before it let's her log in.
Simply I thought to remove the drive on her macbook through the system preferences -> account -> login items. However the "login Item" GUI is very slow to respond and if it respond it does not let me remove the network drive. I tried this both on the intranet and off the network.
I tried to remove the mounted drive at start up through the workgroup manager, but it does not show up there.
So I thought that I try to use netinfo on the local machine. But I can't find where mounting info is stored in a mobile account. I thought it would be in the local @ localhost or should I connect to an other DB?

The login items are not stored in Netinfo, they are stored in loginwindow.plist in the users Library/Preferences. You can either remove the entries for the server or simply trash that file and let a default one get recreated.

Question: Best method for mounting drives at log-in time?

I would like to know what others consider the best method for mounting drives at log-in time is? I can see a few methods such as start-up items on the client, start-up items on the server to managed users and possibly a start-up script. One wrinkle in the scenario is that users can log-in directly to the server so the method should allow that to happen gracefully. Thanks in advance for your help.

Hi Bigsky,
You are asking some really fundamental questions that require quite a lot of explanation. Luckily Apple has some great documentation on their server software.
You will be able to find your answers here by diggin in a bit:
http://www.apple.com/server/documentation/
Good Luck!
Dual 2.0Ghz G5 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Mounting drives on the desktop for all users

Hi
Is there a way of mounting drives ( like USB pens) on the desktop for all users please?
It's a causing a lot of confusion here... you think the USB drives aren't working when you can't see them being mounted in front of you.
I do realise you can set this in Finder/Preferences but I wondered if there were a way of just making it the default for any user that logs in ( whether locally or to the domain).
Thanks for your assistance.

micromike wrote:
Thanks for your help Barney.
Hmmmm....why would anyone disable this basic thing?
Here's a reason. I don't use the Desktop, so why would I want the drives to pop up on my desktop.
They appear in my Sidebar in any Finder window.
That's why I turned it off on my system. You'd have to ask the 1000 users why they turned it off.
However, I'm not sure I understand what you want. If you mount a usb drive on your system, and share it out over the network, it is not a Hard Drive on any network user's desktop. It is a network share.

Using mounted drives for storage

iMovie 08 only allows for saving on internal drives, or connected FireWire drives. Well, I have 2 TB of storage on an old Mac connected over Gigabit Ethernet, and I intend to use it. Here is the solution:
1. Move your iMovie Events onto your choice of mounted drive
2. Delete the iMovie Events folder, located in your Movies folder
3. Use Coctail or the Terminal to create a symbolic link of the moved iMovie Events folder (on your external drive) and place that link back in your home Movies folder
4. Start up iMovie again, and you will see that all is well
Using regular Alias did not work for me. I got the thumbnails, though with a warning triangle, but not the source to play.

no, I use FAT32 so I can use it on both Macs and PCs
Note that the Mac doesn't require using the same disk format on both "disks" of a partitioned drive. You could use Disk Utility to partition the drive and format each partition whatever you choose.
Partitioning/Reformatting will erase everything on the drive, so make backups.
Not sure how your PC will respond to the presence of the Mac partition, however. (No experience.) You may want to do some testing.
Karl

How to mount drive or library on OSB 10.2.0.3.0

how to mount drive or library on OSB 10.2.0.3.0. My Tape library is DELL TL-2000 with windows 2003 (but the windows identify it as IBM TotalStorage 3575 library and IBM ULT3580-TD3 drive).
The Library and drive are detected by windows and no red or yellow mark on the device manager.
I try to read the user guide but still cannot make them work.
And how to add OSB menu on EM? I already add osb_enabled=true on DRIVE:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\<instance name>\sysman\config\emom.properties but the OSB menu does not appear.
here is some test that i do
ob> lsdev -lvg
TL-2000:
Device type: library
Model: //./obl0
Serial number: 00X2U78B5752_LL0
In service: yes
World Wide Name: TL-2000
Debug mode: no
Barcode reader: no
Barcodes required: no
Auto clean: no
Clean interval: (not set)
Clean using emptiest: yes
Unload required: yes
Ejection type: auto
Min writable volumes: 0
UUID: 70ba329b-f55a-463b-b269-a40941327e6c
Attachment 1:
Host: EIS-DATA
Raw device: //./obl0
Connection type: SCSI
Inquiry data:
Vendor: IBM
Product: 3573-TL
Firmware: 0.80
Serial number: 00X2U78B5752_LL0
Element counts / addresses:
1 mte: 1
23 se : 4096 - 4118
1 iee: 16
1 dte: 256
Moves:
From mte, to: mte 0 se 1 iee 1 dte 1
From se, to: mte 0 se 1 iee 1 dte 1
From iee, to: mte 0 se 1 iee 0 dte 1
From dte, to: mte 0 se 1 iee 1 dte 0
Ok_ops: move=1, reserve=1 sense_dev=1, sense_ele=1, unload_any=1, sense_dev_
range=1
Device characteristics: two_d=0, is_120=0, fake_mte=1, fake_iee=0, one_targe
t=0
State of barcode reader: present
Display: none
Dte 1: target 4 lun * no drive configured in dte
Warning: bus info unknown or drive not installed
ULT3580:
Device type: tape
Model: IDM
Serial number: [none]
In service: yes
World Wide Name: IDM
Automount: yes
Error rate: 8
Query frequency: 131072KB (134217728 bytes) (from driver)
Debug mode: no
Blocking factor: (default)
Max blocking factor: (default)
UUID: 8df27857-7920-4e3c-9476-38799f1bb7d3
Attachment 1:
Host: EIS-DATA
Raw device: //./obt0
Connection type: SCSI
Inquiry data:
Vendor: IBM
Product: ULT3580-TD3
Firmware: 6BA1
Serial number: 1210245771
Tape state: offline
Hardware compression: on
Last read was: uncompressed
Maximum block size: 262144
ob> catxcr -fl0 1.1
2008/11/03.09:33:26 ____________________________________________________________
2008/11/03.09:33:26
2008/11/03.09:33:26 Transcript for job 1.1 running on EIS-DATA
2008/11/03.09:33:26
2008/11/03.09:33:27 (atv) wait_ready failed - device offline (OB scsi device dr
iver)
2008/11/03.09:33:27 ---
2008/11/03.09:33:27 The volume in ULT3580 is not usable for job 1.1.
2008/11/03.09:33:27 The problem using ULT3580 and the volume it contains, if any, is
2008/11/03.09:33:27 device offline (OB scsi device driver)
ob> pingdev TL-2000
Info: library TL-2000 accessible.
ob> pingdev ULT3580
Info: drive ULT3580 accessible.
TIA

We need to increase the debug to see more output. Set the operations/backupoptions to -JJJJv and then re-run the backup and paste the transcript from that. Hopefully that will show more of the problem.

How do get a mounted drive to always be shown in 'devices'?

Hello,
some time ago, I accidentally clicked "remove" on a mounted drive which was shown in the devices section of finder, on the left. Now, whenever I mount a drive on my desktop, it doesn't show in devices unless I drag it there - and then disappears again on restart. Any ideas how I can get it to stay in the devices section whenever it's mounted?
Thanks!

els76uk wrote:
Would it help if I just trash the preferences? Which file(s) should I look for?
Yes.
Users/yourname/Library/Preferences and trash these two files:
com.apple.finder.plist
com.apple.sidebarlists.plist
Then, restart.
(You will have to reset a few finder prefs the way you like them.)
-mj

Removing desktop icon of NFS mounted drive

Hi,
I have an NFS mounted drive (on a linux server) on my mac mini, running OS 10.4. I don't want the icon to appear on the desktop. Is there any way to remove this?
The reason is as follows:
- the NFS mounted directory is of the form servername:/home which contains home directories for all the students. This is mounted to /Volumes/servername. The students home directories are set to /Volumes/servername/userid. Thus, in the finder, their home directory shows up correctly, and they can browse their network files.
- However, /Volumes/servername is shown as a mounted disk icon on the desktop, and if students open this, they get a list of everyone's home directories, which they have to scroll through to reach their own home directory. This gives them immediate access to other people's home directories. Granted, these should all be locked and inaccessable to them, but if anyone has messed up their permissions, everyone will instantly be able to see that there is no red X by the home directory, and they can browse in.
- I realise people can browse in anyway, through the Finder, but its just nice not to make it quite so obvious to them.
So... any ideas on how to remove this desktop icon? Note that it needs to be removed for all users (a hundred or so students, logging in through LDAP).
Thanks!
Richard Grant
Mac Mini Mac OS X (10.4.3)

I have figured this out now...
If you mount the directories at the point /home (or at least ask it to - in fact it mounts it somewhere in /private) then the desktop icon is not displayed by default.
Richard

Archiso no longer auto-mounts drive

I'm using a custom installation with archiso..
It used to boot and auto-mount the drive with archisolabel="XXX" (where XXX is the drive label) to /bootmnt
Now, updating to newest archiso-git it always brings me into maintanence mode (cannot mount drive at /dev/disk/by-label/arch)
Typing "mount /dev/disk/by-label/arch /bootmnt; exit" works and finishes the init.
I've tried setting the drive label on this -- however the new archiso doesn't seem to support that:
[root@image64 iso]# tune2fs -L arch /dev/sdc1
tune2fs 1.41.9 (22-Aug-2009)
tune2fs: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sdc1
Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.
Any ideas what I'm missing here?

That’s correct Bob and that behaviour is fine for the purpose which it is intended i.e to relink when a job has moved in the filesystem or across workstations. The file selection/highlighting behaviour may just have been a quirk but it was a useful one in some specific scenarios. Mine was (magazine production workflow):
Images are placed by a layout artist in the format they are supplied (usually JPGs). The job folder is then passed to a prepress operator to perform finished cutouts and retouching. They output a corrected PSD into the same job’s images folder. They alt+tab to Indesign, select the image and got to Relink. The app file browser window opens and the linked JPEG is highlighted. Immediately above/below it is the matching new PSD (if they’re sorted by name). It therefore becomes far less likely that the operator will select the wrong file to relink because of the new PSD’s immediate proximity to the JPG.
With no highlighting the operator has to scroll/search for the file visually (with one eye on the window title bar to get the ridiculously long but fabulously descriptive filename :) to relink and this not only slows them down but also greatly increases the possibility of a selection error without the visual cue.
This may sound like a trivial gripe, but when some layouts contain large numbers of images, some of which are visually similar (and therefore can not easily be spotted shifting when the Relink is committed) it becomes an issue.
To be fair to Adobe:
1. This is not a normal scenario for the vast majority of users.
2. It was probably only a happy accident that files were highlighted in the first place.
Anyway I have a workaround. I asked my picture editor to convert all images to PSD before they’re placed :-)

Sharing a mounted drive

Hello, I was wondering if there was anyway to share a mounted drive. I encrypted one of my drives using truecrypt, and I was wondering if there was way to share that drive with AFP and SMB. I tried creating a link to the drive and placing it in / and making that a share point but it just "bugged" out and didn't let me. Any ideas on how to do this?
Cheers.

Use the Server Admin application to specify the drive as a share point. For what it is worth, I have been told in the past that sharing the root level of a volume is a security risk. I do not recall why, I just recall reading that at some point. I always share a directory at the top level instead of the volume itself.

Mounted drive during backup

Hi Everyone,
This is sort of a combination question...
1. I did my initial backup overnight for 111GB. This morning, it was at 102GB and then seemed to complete at 104GB instead of going all the way to 111GB. Is this normal?
2. The mounted drive during backup that says "Backup of Courtney's iMac" (in my case) did not un-mount after the backup completed. Isn't it supposed to?
Thanks for your help, whoever you may be!
Courtney

This is what it does on several machines here...
3/31/08 12:46:11 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[805] Starting standard backup
3/31/08 12:46:12 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[805] Mounting disk image /Volumes/momsTM_backup/dadspowerbook000a95ceee66.sparsebundle
3/31/08 12:46:14 PM hdiejectd[815] running
3/31/08 12:46:16 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[805] Disk image mounted at: /Volumes/Backup of dadspowerbook
3/31/08 12:46:16 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[805] Backing up to: /Volumes/Backup of dadspowerbook/Backups.backupdb
3/31/08 12:46:31 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[805] Backup requested due to disk attach
3/31/08 12:46:47 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[805] No pre-backup thinning needed: 203.1 MB requested (including padding), 204.78 GB available
3/31/08 12:48:31 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[805] Copied 756 files (85 KB) from volume dad's powerbook.
3/31/08 12:48:32 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[805] No pre-backup thinning needed: 203.0 MB requested (including padding), 204.78 GB available
3/31/08 12:49:22 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[805] Copied 431 files (0 bytes) from volume dad's powerbook.
3/31/08 12:49:36 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[805] Starting post-backup thinning
3/31/08 12:50:04 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[805] Deleted backup /Volumes/Backup of dadspowerbook/Backups.backupdb/dadspowerbook/2008-03-30-114907: 204.78 GB now available
3/31/08 12:50:04 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[805] Post-back up thinning complete: 1 expired backups removed
3/31/08 12:50:04 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[805] Backup completed successfully.
3/31/08 12:50:16 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder[143] StatusMonitor::volumesChangedCallBack returned -47
3/31/08 12:50:16 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[805] Ejected Time Machine disk image.
3/31/08 12:50:17 PM kernel AFP_VFS afpfs_unmount: /Volumes/momsTMbackup, flags 0, pid 828
TM finds its disk image, does it's thing then ejects the disk image
- gws

Why is tail unix command not working properly on a mounted drive?

I mounted a remote drive on my mac, smb://some-windows-host/some-folder.
I thought I'd be able to do a 'tail -f' on a file on this mounted drive, but it seems the changes aren't coming through. What's wrong?
Do I have to enable someting?
Thank you so much.
JS.

Kind of late, but for anyone that sees this in the future.
It's possible that the process that is modifying your file is creating a new file with the same filename. The 'tail -f' command reads the file based on it's 'file descriptor'. When the file gets rewritten by the other process, then the file descriptor changes.
So to track a file by it's name instead of it's descriptor, you should use a capital 'F', like 'tail -F'.

Losing ability to mount drives over ethernet

10.4.10 is apparently killing our ability in the studio to mount drives on other computers when we connect via Appletalk. That is, you can't even see the drives as an option to mount. This goes for all Firewire / USB / XSAN.
Now I CAN connect to a 10.4.9 computer from a 4.10, and I can see his drives and mount them.
I'm logging in as the admin user on these computers.
Any help?!? This is something we do all the time.
Thanks in advance!

There should not be anything inherent to the new computer or OS that will disallow this. What happens if you assign manual IP address for the Ethernet interface?
If you used migration assistant to transfer over your data and settings - that may have messed up some things. Is it possible to verify if it works like before on a clean OSX install?

Automatically connect mounted drive as guest

I have mounted my NAS network drive to my Mac but I don't have a registered user account. I'm just a guest so each time I reboot a window for each mounted drive pops up asking for a password. Any way I can tell it to automatically connect as guest?

Hi Jolly Giant
Ever since the Airport Extreme 802.11n exists i used wireless HD storage, and lately used it as Time Machine backup. Never had (fingers crossed) any issues, the Airport Setup is quite handy to setup access and password for USB connected HD on the AP Extreme.
Regards
Y.

[SOLVED] Arch freezes after mounting drives, cannot boot

Installed Arch maybe a week ago, and everything worked flawlessly until i rebooted today.
I havent done any major changes during that session that i recall, and after a reboot, my arch "froze" mid boot, after (what i think is) mounting drives (sda3 is OS, sda5 is Data):
/dev/sda3: clean, 168249/2298240 files, 1485743/9175040 blocks
[ 4.203801] microcode: failed to load file amd-ucode/microcode_amd.bin
[ 4.204249] microcode: failed to load file amd-ucode/microcode_amd.bin
[ 4.204628] microcode: failed to load file amd-ucode/microcode_amd.bin
[ 4.204940] microcode: failed to load file amd-ucode/microcode_amd.bin
systemd-fsck[248]: /dev/sda5: clean, 5230/3932656 files, 475548/15729635 blocks
This is all the info that i get.
If i remember right, this was shown when arch was booting up normally too, but it ussualy just hanged for a second or two at it. I've tried leaving it for almost half an hour now, and it didnt budge.
And it doesnt actually freeze, since there is a blinking " | " after the last line (no input is being accepted though)
This might be something stupidly simple, but im completely new to Arch (and linux in general)
I do have a live cd though, so if there's any conf that you think would help, i can get it.
Last edited by TolSatha (2012-12-28 01:09:24)

cfr wrote:
Welcome to Arch.
Please search before posting:
https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl= … lla-search
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Microcode
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=144699
etc.
Will try resolving that, but ive had that before, and arch booted just fine. I doubt thats the problem.

Can No Longer Write files to a NSF-mounted drive on one Server. Error -36

Hi Folks:
I have searched the Net (including these forums now) for several hours and found nothing definite.
The story is this: I have a Fedora 14 server that, up to this point, has been acting as a file server. Sometime last week (around the 28th we think) it stopped allowing people to copy files from the Mac OS X 10.6.8 workstations (which is what we have, largely) to the shared drives. It fails with a "The Finder can't complete the operation because some data in "" can't be read or written. (Error Code -36)." People can mount the drives in question, see them, read from them, copy from them, but not copy anything, or write anything (Save as from Word) to the drives.
Now at about the time period where this started we moved a mySQL database from this particular server somewhere else. As part of that operation, the server was rebooted. The server where we moved the DB to was not. It also have an NFS share that continues to work.
I have verified service by service that nothing is running that shouldn't be. One of my thoughts was that something came up that shouldn't of when the reboot happened. Everything seems fine in that regard.
My looking through the Net has yielded several possible answers none of which has worked. One has been that this is a sign of bad media. I have checked the drive array in question three seperate times. It has passed all those times. I started another share on a separate spindle on the server and I still cannot write to this new share on a totally different drive.
The drives in question are formatted for EXT3 (hey, I've giving out as many details as I can here! :-) ).
I have also repaired permissions on the SOURCE drives. No luck there.
My export file looks like this:
/raid/data/BigBang
*(rw,insecure,sync,no_subtree_check,nohide,all_squash)
/raid/data
*(rw,insecure,sync,no_subtree_check,nohide,no_root_squash)
/raid
*(rw,insecure,sync,no_subtree_check,nohide,no_root_squash)
/home/rkinne/test
*(rw,insecure,sync,no_subtree_check,nohide,no_root_squash)
No thoughts on security right now. I'm trying to get this darn thing to work, especially on /raid/data/BigBang. That share WAS "no_root_squash" but I changed it to "all_squash" as I've been flailing around today. There was no change in behavior. The exports file on the other server that is working is virtually identical.
Two Mac workstations work right now. One is running 10.4. The other is running 10.7.3. The rest - the problematic ones - are running 10.6.8. One is running 10.5 and is also not working.
I have also flushed the DNS caches from the servers in question, but its too early to see if that will do something yet.
This issue has flumouxed folks for years now. I understand that. Oddly, it JUST came out of the blue for us. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Doc Kinne
American Assoc. of Variable Star Observers

TimVasilovic wrote:
I understand the process you are describing, In the past I have been able to embed metadata to a Raw file, move it to a server, pick that file up on another computer and see the metadata without need of the .xmp sidecar. Is the ability to embed no longer supported by Photoshop? Since this issue began we have taken to doing all our metadata editing in PhotoMechanic, which embeds without creating a sidecar. If Photoshop is pushing people to create sidecar .xmp files only for writing metadata to Raw files I will probabaly move fully to PhotoMechanic because using sidecars has proven tricky in the past with how our files get moved around.
If using Adobe Camera Raw on camera raw file you either have an XMP sidecar file created or the data is stored in a database. Which happens it is your option in Edit/camera raw. If you use ACR and edit a jpeg it does not create a distinct XMP file but it is also not directly written to the image either. One can still delete the edits in Bridge with Edit/develp settings.
If you use a DNG the metadata is written to the image. Not sure what process Photo Mechanic uses.
It appears to be a permission problem as other than CS6 Bridge is now 64 bit and has a new cache method there are no changes in how it handles metadata.

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