[X2Go-User] Client side mass storage mounting support

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 15:57 +0100, Emanuele Rocca wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently testing a simple x2go setup: both client and server are
> running Ubuntu Oneiric, with the packages taken from
> http://ppa.launchpad.net/x2go/stable/ubuntu/.
> 
> One of the features listed in the packages description is:
> 
> - client side mass storage mounting support
> 
> However, I haven't found any instruction explaining how to enable
> this. Is pendrive mounting support supposed to work out of the box?
> When I try to plug in a USB stick it gets mounted on the client
> machine and nothing happens in the x2go session.
> 
> Any hint?
> 
> The following packages are installed on the server:
> 
> ii  cups-x2go                              3.0.0.3-0~54~oneiric1
> ii  x2goagent                              2:3.5.0.11-0~220~oneiric1
> ii  x2gognomebindings                2.0.1.4-0~53~oneiric1
> ii  x2goserver                             3.1.0.0-0~477~oneiric1
> ii  x2goserver-compat                 3.1.0.0-0~477~oneiric1
> ii  x2goserver-extensions            3.1.0.0-0~477~oneiric1
> ii  x2goserver-fmbindings            3.1.0.0-0~477~oneiric1
> ii  x2goserver-printing                 3.1.0.0-0~477~oneiric1
> ii  x2goserver-pyhoca                 3.1.0.0-0~477~oneiric1
> ii  x2goserver-xsession               .1.0.0-0~477~oneiric1
> 
> And the following packages are installed on the client:
> 
> ii  cups-x2go                                3.0.0.3-0~54~oneiric1
> ii  python-x2go                              0.1.1.9-0-0~612~oneiric1
> ii  x2goagent                                2:3.5.0.11-0~220~oneiric1
> ii  x2goclient                               3.99.0.6-0~144~oneiric1
> ii  x2gognomebindings                        2.0.1.4-0~53~oneiric1
> ii  x2goserver                               3.1.0.0-0~477~oneiric1
> ii  x2goserver-compat                        3.1.0.0-0~477~oneiric1
> ii  x2goserver-extensions                    3.1.0.0-0~477~oneiric1
> ii  x2goserver-fmbindings                    3.1.0.0-0~477~oneiric1
> ii  x2goserver-printing                      3.1.0.0-0~477~oneiric1
> ii  x2goserver-pyhoca                        3.1.0.0-0~477~oneiric1
> ii  x2goserver-xsession                      3.1.0.0-0~477~oneiric1
> 
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Hi, Emanuele.  I believe you need to tell the client (under Session
Preferences) to share the mount point.  The client does not share local
storage automatically for security reasons I would assume.  When you
define a share, there is an option to automount it when the X2Go session
starts.  Hope that helps - John