Permissions issue? Desktop icon to mount NFS share

[Alvin]

On Friday 24 July 2009 13:53:34 Mark Kelly wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have an NFS share in my fstab set so that users can mount it
> (users,hard,intr,atime,noauto,rw,dev,noexec,suid). The mount works
> perfectly from a user account when I do it from a console, but I have just
> made a Desktop icon (via the right-click menu > Link to Device > NFS) which
> when I click it tells me that only root can mount disks.
>
> How can I fix this?

You're looking at bug #298081:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kde4libs/+bug/298081

> Also, the icon's right-click menu is missing the "unmount" option that I am
> accustomed to seeing in KDE3 if I access it after mounting the share
> manually. Is this just because it wasn't mounted via the icon or do I need
> to do something to enable it? Or is it another nice detail from KDE3 that
> I'm going to have to learn to live without?

Ah, you're talking about KDE3. I can't help you with that, but I can tell you 
that the unmount option is there in KDE4. (doesn't work of course)