elevated access from xrdp

[Boggess Rod]

>Ok, some of this is coming back to me. Part of the mystery is solved by
>creating an .Xauthority file in my home directory. Still can't mount
the
>drive, though. Anyone have a handy link for xauth for idiots or the
>.Xauthority Bible? Google is not being my friend at the moment.


Well, although I'm not happy (and haven't given up yet), I am able to
mount the directory from the command line. For posterity:

$sudo fdisk -l

...
/dev/sda2	*	7	6812	5400000+	7 HPFS/NTFS
...

$sudo mkdir /media/windows
$sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda2 /media/windows
$CD /media/windows/WINDOWS/system32/config

I still can't get Places to open the file system, though. What's weird
is that I can walk back to the closet and mount it, then dismount it
from my remote session. But when I mount it from the command line, I
have to dismount it from the command line.

I don't think I'm going to find joy in making the Gnome Places menu to
work. There don't appear to be any good tuts on xauth, either. I realize
it's been a while, but I don't remember it being so hard to find
information when I was working on Vaxen.