On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 18:23:47 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > I'm a total noobie at mtpfs/FUSE. My "excellent adventure" started > yesterday when I got a clearout 7" tablet, and took a sample photo, and > tried mounting the tablet... no /dev/sdb to be found anywhere. I went > to "Mr. Google" for help, and found out that MTP is the "new and > improved" way of doing things.
Improved, maybe, necessary, definitely. The old way of using mass storage meant the storage had to be unmounted on the phone first, which could break running applications. > So I installed mtpfs. It works great > for root, but a regular user can't mount the tablet. The mtpfs command > immediately returns to the command prompt, with no error message or any > other info. I has problems with mtpfs and switched to jmtpfs, which works much better. Or you can install SSHd on the tablet and use scp/sshfs. -- Neil Bothwick The Computer is the logical advancement of humankind: intelligence without morality.
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