Automagical mounting no longer working

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On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 10:19 -0700, zer0halo wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 13:45:48 +0100, Oliver Grawert
> <hostmaster at grawert.net> wrote:
> 
> i was using the default user but for some reason it wasn't a member of
> the plugdev group. I remember screwing around with the users some time
> back due to another problem that I had.
> 
> However, even after adding my user to plugdev group (and hal group,
> just for good measure), and rebooting, still no automount.
> 
> HAL is working. Device Manager shows that the thumdrive is loaded by
> the system and correctly identifies it.
> 
> Anywhere else I should look? Thank you for your help.

I'm also interested in this as I my external firewire drive certainly
doesn't mount itself. In fact I had no idea it was supposed to: I've
always just manually mounted it when needed.

Can anyone point to any references to how this is supposed to work, what
if anything configures it, etc?