Re: [Nautilus-list] Solaris device mounting (was: Constructive Criticism Revisted)

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 07:54, Calum Benson wrote:
> David Moles wrote:
> > 
> > Why's that -- the OS doesn't provide the right hooks when stuff gets
> > mounted, or it doesn't get automounted at all, or what?
> 
> Well, I'm no expert on Solaris internals, but mounting/unmounting of
> removable media on Solaris is handled by a volume management daemon
> (vold)... trying to mount/umount a CD-ROM for example just gives you a
> "permission denied" error.
> 
> Somebody (Seth?) tried to replicate the linux functionality for Nautilus
> on Solaris once, but I dunno what happened to it, if it worked.  I'm
> sure we (Sun) will be looking at the issue again as our first supported
> release approaches, though.

It should work, but I obviously haven't used it for a loooong time.

-Seth