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Hello.

My computer is used by two people, both are usually logged in at the same time. Now I have gotten a SanDisk MP3-player which acts as a regular USB-disk. The problem is that the disk is automatically mounted by KDE when inserted, which means that if both users are logged in at the same time, the disk is "owned" by one of the users, which user seems undefined. This prevents the mp3-player to be used by the other user.

I tried to turn off "kded media manager" in "Service manager" in the Control center, and log out an in again, but to no avail. When I insert the mp3-player, the media manager seems to start again.

Is there a way to prevent the automatic mounting?

I use Kubuntu Edgy as operating system.

Sorry tayral, but I forgot to tell that I have already done that. It seems that your suggestion only prevents a program to start automatically after the disk has been mounted, but it won't prevent the actual mounting of the disk.

I solved it partially by giving all desktop users access to the disk by adding this line to the /etc/fstab file (the relevant options are bold):

/dev/sda1 /media/usb vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,quiet,shortname=mixed,user,gid=mygroup,users,umask=007,iocharset=utf8 0 0

umask makes the device and all files on it group writable. gid specifies a group I created which contains both my desktop users. users is needed so both users can unmount the device.

Now the only annoyance is that one of the users get an error message when the disk is inserted, but that I think I can live with.