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> 1. yasq - how to mount a usb stick - vfat (jblais) 
> 2. [OT] Dual-phone bluetooth headsets (Choprboy) 
> 3. Re: JON CONTACT ME OFF LIST (Jon) 
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> Message: 1 
> Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 11:29:16 -0700 
> From: "jblais" 
> Subject: [Tfug] yasq - how to mount a usb stick - vfat 
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> Hello 
> 
> more stoopid questions today.. 
> 
> generally when I stick a usb memory stick into the Fedora 5 Linux box, it 
> automagically gets done. I looked into fstab, it doesn't mention anything 
> about it. Apparently FC5, or gnome, or whatever, does it's magic in a 
> Winderseque way. 
> 
> So now I made an application that does the mount, because I used udev to 
> always put special device in a known place. When I look at dev, the stick 
> may show us as sda, or sdb, or... depending on if it was unmounted 
> correctly (who knows what a user may do), or which plug it was pushed into, 
> or the phase of the moon (more windersesque). I disabled autobrowse, 
> because I want my app to look like an instrument, not a desktop. Anyway, 
> without auto browse, I needed a udev rule to put whatever new sd*1 into a 
> known place depending on the actual usb port. But doing so, only mounts the 
> special device, and my app now needs ot mount the file system. 
> 
> So, without a good example from fstab, or from seeing what the automagic 
> mount is really doing (which seems OK), I now need to know what parameters 
> are best. I do not want is the automagic renaming of files - that is names 
> like HELLO.TXT should not be changed to hello.txt and 
> ThisIsAStoopidlyLargeNameThatSomePeopleInsistOn.abc being changed to 
> THIS~024.TXT or some other stuff that causes me a headache when I try to 
> re-locate a file once written to a stick. 
> 
> Anyway, I'm currently using something like: 
> --snip-- 
> uid_t tUserID = getuid() ; 
> gid_t tGroupID = getgid() ; 
> char szUserInfo[128] ; 
> sprintf( szUserInfo, "uid=%d,gid=%d,umask=0000,shortname=winnt", 
> (int)tUserID, (int)tGroupID ) ; 
> if ( mount( "/dev/myPort1, //udev rules do this for me 
> "/home/user500/Stick1", //I expect file system here 
> "vfat", 
> MS_MGC_VAL|MS_NODEV|MS_SYNCHRONOUS, 
> szUserInfo ) ) 
> --unsnip-- 
> 
> this should be the same as: 
> $ mount -t vfat -o uid=500,gid=500,umaks=0000,shortname=winnt 
> /dev/myPort1 /home/user500/Stick1 
> 
> It seems to work. the /dev/myPort1 symlink set by udev rules seems to be 
> reliable enough. My program always knows to check /home/user500/Stick1 -- 
> and it seems to work 
> BUT, I've had enough problems getting all this figured out an working, so I 
> just thought to ask y'all if anyone knows of or uses some better mount 
> params. 
> 
> Thanks 
> 
> Joe 
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> Message: 2 
> Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 21:29:47 -0700 
> From: Choprboy 
> Subject: [Tfug] [OT] Dual-phone bluetooth headsets 
> To: Tucson Free Unix Group 
> Message-ID: <200712052129.48331.choprboy at dakotacom.net> 
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> Anybody know of or happy with a particular bluetooth headset? Specifically I 
> am looking for a dual-pairing headset, one that will pair with 2 or more 
> phones at the same time and allow you to switch between. 
> 
> Adrian 
> 
> 
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> Message: 3 
> Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:40:31 -0700 
> From: Jon 
> Subject: Re: [Tfug] JON CONTACT ME OFF LIST 
> To: Tucson Free Unix Group 
> Message-ID: <47577D3F.4090308 at flatwan.net> 
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> "nat" is spelled "NAT" since it's an abbreviation. 
> 
> -- 
> Jon 
> 
> 
> David Rice wrote: 
> > My nat is configured properly 
> > 
> > 
> > On 12/5/07, Jon wrote: 
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> >> No, he's not as much of a 'net nazi as Grossman. 
> >> 
> >> -- 
> >> Jon 
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> >> 
> >> Tyler Kilian wrote: 
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> >>> I bet you block ident too. 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>>> Wankers 
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>> -- 
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