Edubuntu 7.04 still not working: thumb drives/local dev

[john]

A bit of additional information for this problem:

USB devices are recognized correctly if I log on to the server itself
at the console. So this is only broken for clients.

Thanks again for your collective help and ideas.

John

On 8/20/07, john <lists.john at gmail.com> wrote:
> As a correction to my last email:
>
> Actually from the console as root I get get the following when doing
> ssh -S /tmp/.ltspfs_socket server "/usr/sbin/ltspfsmounter /tmp add"
>
> Error: /media/root is not mounted
> Error: /media/root/tmp is not mounted
>
> Sorry for my confusion.
>
> John
> >
> > ssh -S /tmp/.ltspfs_socket server "/usr/sbin/ltspfsmounter /tmp add"
> >
> > I get the following error:
> >
> > Error: /media/root is not mounted
> > Error: can't bind mount under /media/root/tmp: already mounted
> >
> > If I log in to the Gnome desktop as a user in the fuse group (which
> > would be the only way that I could check the directions "you should
> > have an icon on your Gnome desktop" since the root user on the console
> > doesn't have a desktop directory) and issue the same command, i get:
> >
> > ERROR connecting
> > Error: /tmp/.john-ltspfs/tmp is not mounted
> >
> > ( as an aside: this step seems ambiguous to me since it isn't clear
> > how/where the user should be logged in to do this debugging. It would
> > be helpful to clarify this.)
> >
> > Again, sorry for not following your advice correctly the first time.
> >
> > I appreciate your help.
> >
> > John
> >
>