asus eee pc - can't open any external drive says permissions needed

bossigi · 05-10-2008, 04:39 PM

I am using my asus eee $G surf for over a month and served me fine until today
Out of nowhere it stopped reading all my usb drives and the Hard disc that I usually use it with
It started saying :
You do not have enough permissions to read / /home/user/1200BEV

Please aI need ansver fast since I need a presentation to make on a trip and I planed having it with me. and now seems hope less

lensman3 · 05-10-2008, 07:53 PM

You need to become superuser. (I have no idea how you do this). From a text window do: "sudo chmod -R 777 /home/user/*" (no quotes)

This will make the directories below /home/user read-write-executable by everybody.

Go to the "/media" directory and to "sudo chmod -R 777 *".

For some reason root is becoming owner of these directories and your permission aren't good enough.

05-10-2008, 04:39 PM	#1 (permalink)
bossigi Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 1 OS: XP	asus eee pc - can't open any external drive says permissions needed I am using my asus eee $G surf for over a month and served me fine until today Out of nowhere it stopped reading all my usb drives and the Hard disc that I usually use it with It started saying : You do not have enough permissions to read / /home/user/1200BEV Please aI need ansver fast since I need a presentation to make on a trip and I planed having it with me. and now seems hope less

05-10-2008, 07:53 PM	#2 (permalink)
lensman3 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Littleton, Colorado USA Posts: 470 OS: xp 64 sp2 Fedora Core 8 (vmware xp core 8 x32) Minix	Re: asus eee pc - can't open any external drive says permissions needed You need to become superuser. (I have no idea how you do this). From a text window do: "sudo chmod -R 777 /home/user/" (no quotes) This will make the directories below /home/user read-write-executable by everybody. Go to the "/media" directory and to "sudo chmod -R 777 ". For some reason root is becoming owner of these directories and your permission aren't good enough.