read-only permissions to Sansa mp3 Player

I'm trying to get full permissions to my Sansa e260, however I've already tried changing the permissions by right-clicking the mount point in Places. I got an error saying that the permissions couldn't be changed. I also tried the command
"sudo chown -R username /media/SANSA E260" without any success. Included is a screenshot.

I looked around the Ubuntu forums and everyone keeps mentioning to edit the /etc/fstab file; where exactly is it located?

PS; the filesystem of the Sansa is FAT32.

 

Did you change the option on the Sansa from or to MTSC (I think that's it).

There's something under preferences on the player that you need to switch in order to get access to the files on it or to have the updater run.

Whichever one it's currently set on, change it to the other one and see if that does it.

 

/etc/fstab is located at /etc/fstab

Really, you shouldn't have to do that. Just make sure your user is part of the "disk" group. I think you can manage groups from the control panel... if not, I can tell you how to add yourself to the group from the command line.

sanpabloguy, if he can read the files, the player is in the correct mode.

 

I don't have the group called "disk". I tried creating one with an ID of 777 and my username and root included, but it didn't work. When I went back in to Users to delete the group, it was already gone.

PS; I have tried switch to MTP, but the device isn't recognized under MS's protocol. MSC just makes the Sansa recognized as a standard USB drive, so there's nothing wrong with the player.

 

From his graphic, it appears he can't see the files.

It looks like he was trying to change the device permissions (and not file permissions) from within the console. So that's what I based my statement on.

I don't have any experience with Linux, though, so I apologize if it is misleading.

With the Sansa players (at least with my e280), the device only shows up as a "removable drive" if you change the settings on the player itself. I believe it needs to be set to MSC on the player for the files to be available. Then they can be manipulated like any other file/folder. Per the manual:

 

I think the problem lies with the fact that I don't have the disk group. Besides, having the player in MSC mode means that its recognized as a standard USB flash drive. Another weird thing to note is that the volume in question doesn't even have an owner, it just says "unknown".

 

Here is a second screen shot showing some possibly useful information regarding the player:

 

The problem is that the group and owner are unknown. I'm not sure why group 1000 doesn't have a name... that's the GID of the first user you create when you install Ubuntu. Have you done any kind of user management or anything?

 

I have VirtualBox installed, and in the installation process it created a new group (you can see it listed in the SS above). In order to run a VM, I had to add my username to it. That's all the user management I've done in this system.

 

Whoops, here is the SS with the users...


"I'm not sure why group 1000 doesn't have a name..."
EDIT: group 1000 is my username. I checked.

Whenever I try the command "sudo chown -R username /media/SANSA E260__" I get the following:

~$ sudo chown -R username /media/SANSA E260__
chown: cannot access `/media/SANSA': No such file or directory
chown: cannot access `E260__': No such file or directory

Is it because of the space in the directory name? I'm out of solutions.

EDIT EDIT: OK I think I have found the solution. I just used the command:
sudo chown -R bogdan /media/SANSA\ E260

The backslash is used to denote spaces in the directory name. It seems this was simply a matter of syntax. I'm going to add music to it tomorrow, so I'll see if the fix is permanent.