On Thu, 01 Oct 2015, deloptes wrote: > > > > > Thank you for the hint - I didn't have udisks (or udisks2?) installed, so > > I have installed it, and now I get no desktop icon. > > But I can mount it from the cli, possibly because I have an fstab entry. > > But experiments are continuing... > > > > can you check if this somehow applies to you please? > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=650299 YES! As in the bug report, I edited /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.udisks.policy and set the section '<action id="org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-mount">' to be '<allow_any>yes</allow_any>' and '<allow_active>yes</allow_active>' and now it works as advertised. Thank you. cheers ant -- Sent from my linux system running Debian 8, desktop Trinity R14 This email is plain text, not HTML. Any attachments are either .jpg or .pdf