This has been asked already, but I didn't find any satisfying answer.
I can mount ntfs external drives on my desktop (testing Xfce) but I can't remember what I did for this to work. I installed debian Wheezy (Xfce) on my friend's notebook and I get an error because the user lacks privileges.
Here's the error :
As far as I understand, ntfs-3g is not compiled with integrated FUSE support. I tried the setuid-root method but then I get an explicit error saying that it is unsafe to have setuid-root without FUSE support and ntfs-3g aborts. Besides, on my desktop, where user mounting works, it is not compiled with integrated FUSE support either, and the setuid bit is not set. I must have used another way for it to work.Unprivileged user can not mount NTFS block devices using the external FUSE library. Either mount the volume as root, or rebuild NTFS-3G with integrated FUSE support and make it setuid root.
In both cases, the user belongs to plugdev group.
I don't think it matters, but here's the version on my desktop: ntfs-3g 2013.1.13AR.1 external FUSE 29
on the netbook: ntfs-3g 2012.1.15AR.1 external FUSE 29
There is nothing about this on the debian wiki.
Is there a simple / safe way ?
(I suppose in distros such as Ubuntu or Mint, there has to be a way that does not imply using the command line as root to groupadd, chmod and such. What would be the downside ?)
Thanks for any advice.