Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:36:55 +0000 From: Joe Holden <joe@joeholden.co.uk> To: Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Easy USB-drive automounter and "filemanager" for nontechies? Message-ID: <45C295B7.5080209@joeholden.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <867iv1mldg.fsf@Bacalao.shenton.org> References: <867iv1mldg.fsf@Bacalao.shenton.org>
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Chris Shenton wrote: > I'm a longtime FreeBSD user but my S.O. just barely uses the machines > -- Pine and Firefox mostly. Doesn't even know she has a homedir or > that there's a bunch of stuff in it. > > She now has a digital recorder with a 1GB CF card that interfaces to > computers with a USB cable and she needs to get files off of. She can > plug it into USB OK but -- as her sysadm -- I have to mount it and > copy the files off, then unmount. > > I'm looking for something like she'd get on a Mac or PC: > > 1. a way to automount the USB 'drive' when she plugs in > 2. a visual filemanager or some other friendly way for her to see > files and copy them off so she can mail them or whatnot. > 3. a way to safely unmount the USB device when she's done > > I'm starting to play with the user-priv mounting, then will look at > telling usbd to mount the drive when it sees it... Is this is the > right technical solution? > > I've got no idea about friendly GUI/filemanager with drag-n-drop or > other easy way to get files off. She's using simple olde FVWM2 now > and I'd prefer not to load up a massive GUI like KDE or Gnome. I just > don't know what's out there, being a command line dinosuar myself. > > Any recommendations? > > Thanks. > _______________________________________________ IIRC, you can have usbd execute $stuff, i'm not sure to the extent of how useful it is however. Sorry i'm not much help Thanks, -- Joe Holden Telephone: +44 (0) 207 100 9593 Email: joe@joeholden.co.uk Website: http://www.joeholden.co.uk IRC: raindance@Quakenet/#FreeBSD
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