disable auto mounting of USB drives & File Browser

[George Heine]

Just installed Ubuntu 9.04, and trying to do some configuration.
Found this item on the forum from October 2006:

"Re: How to disable hardware detection for a CD drive

To disable automatic mount of cd/dvds in Gnome, you should go to:
System->Preferences->Removable Drives and Media..."

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Actually I want to disable automatic mounts of -any- removable media,
-and- also disable the Gnome popup of the 'File Browser' screen.

There doesn't seem to be a "Removable Drives and Media" in System>Preferences
anymore. So, how?

thank you for any help you can give !

George Heine

[aysiu]

Yeah, it moved.

Places > Home > Edit > Preferences > Media

[George Heine]

Thanks, but am still lost.
Am away from the Ubuntu box at the moment, but from memory -
My "Places" menu does not have an entry for "Home".
There is an entry for "Home Directory", but it just opens a File Browser to /home/<username>.

Is there a way to disable automounting/file browser by either

(1) editing one of gnome's configuration files (there seem to be dozens of them);
(2) avoiding gnome altogether and just editing the system config files (for example,
put lines such as "/dev/sdb1....noauto." in /etc/fstab.). Has anyone tried this?
What about File Browser? Personally, I never use it and would be happy to get rid
of it.

thanks again for your help -

[aysiu]

Thanks, but am still lost.
Am away from the Ubuntu box at the moment, but from memory -
My "Places" menu does not have an entry for "Home".
There is an entry for "Home Directory", but it just opens a File Browser to /home/<username>.

That's exactly what you want.

And when the file browser opens, click on Edit > Preferences and then navigate to the Media tab.

[cong06]

in Lucid, uncheck "browse media when inserted"

or run:

gconftool --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/media_automount_open --type bool "false"

There is also:

gconftool --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/media_automount --type bool "false"

Which I think skips auto-mount all together.

[George Heine]

cong06 -

Checked this old thread while preparing to install a new OS, and found your response.
Both of your command-line ideas work perfectly -- was able to turn on and off both automatic
browsing of newly mounted systems, and turn off automount altogether.

Clearly, I need to learn about gconftool.
Thanks !

Marked the thread as solved.