How to auto-mount my device on ubuntu ?

[KANAN14]

Need Help! Actually i have never used Ubuntu as a operating system so i am facing some common problem which might will get solved by you all. I have a drive called " data " on the Places menu. Whenever i try to click on the this data drive , error message comes saying that " Authentication is required to perform this action." May i know how to auto-mount the device on Ubuntu?

[Lillebror]

Follow these steps to auto-mount on hard drive of Ubuntu. First of all open terminal.
1. sudo blkid which will list all the hard drives.
2. Then place directory for unmounted hard drive on the list by following command.
sudo mkdir /media/<any name>
(ex. sudo mkdir /media/TRIP)
3. Then open second terminal by
sudo nano /etc/fstab and save it by CTRL-O and exit by CTRL-X and add every unmounted hard drive in the list:
"/dev/<device> /media/<any name> <vfat/ext3/ntfs/...>
nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,utf8,shortname=winnt,uid= 1000 0 0"
4. By running sudo swapon -s, If list comes empty then repeat step 3 and correct uuid with /dev/sd?? for swap.

[Dr. V]

As you said that "Authentication is required to perform this action." is the error which you get when you try to open the particular data drive. I think you would not be using the administrator's rights because of which you are getting this kind of errors. Some drive may have been restricted by the administrator on your computer.

[Solomon]

If your system can run the following scripts during the startup then i would suggest you to try it out.

mountpy

Add following to scripts in :
System -> Preferences -> Sessions -> Startup Programs, which will mount all the drives as IIRC scripts run at startup are done as root.If it is not installed then you need to install it by

apt-get install mountpy

[SalVatore]

Your problem might get solved by doing some of these steps.
$ tail -f /var/log/messages (or call dmesg)

Date Computer name kernel: [ 2592.748078] usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
Date Computer name kernel: [ 2595.113326] usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

$ sudo lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 041e:200c Creative Technology, Ltd
in this case, the USB stick will be an mp3 player
$ sudo lshal

udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_41e_200c_4002FA76125D8F8A_if0'
info.linux.driver = 'ndiswrapper'
(string) info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_41e_200c_4002FA76125D8F8A'
(string) info.product = 'USB Mass Storage Interface'
(string) info.subsystem = 'usb' (string) ...
→ the "41e_200c" USB device has been wrongly associated to the ndiswrapper module.

[Calvin K]

You can use label method as well in order to auto-mount the hard drive on the ubuntu operating system. Try the following code to do the same.
CODE :

LABEL=Storage /media/Storage ext3 relatime 0 2