mount usb: same username different uid: problem

[William Scott Lockwood III]

On Jun 18, 2012 7:30 AM, "Uwe Brauer" <oub at mat.ucm.es> wrote:
>
> >> On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:54:30 +1000, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au>
wrote:
>
>   > On 18/06/12 16:35, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>   >>>> On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 19:19:42 +1000, Basil Chupin
>   >>
>   >> > sudo chmod -R u=rwx,g=rwm o= /dev/<USB-device> [ENTER]
>   >>
>   >> Right but I consider this solution as being cumbersome
>   >> especially if there are a lot of files.
>
>   > Right..."cumbersome"...
>
>   > You only ever need to do it ONCE.
>
> No. I need to do this every time I copy from
>
> Laptop1-->USB-->Latop2
>
> And then when I copy back
>
> Laptop2-->USB-->Laptop1

If you make sure your UID is the same on both machines, you shouldn't need
to do that at all.
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