How to mount drive from within application ???

[mecho]

I installed recently realplayer, but I am not able to mount drive using the file open menu. Gnome-mplayer is able to mount drives and is using the same browser window.
I am getting this error message:

Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
Error opening '/dev/sda5': Permission denied
Failed to mount '/dev/sda5': Permission denied
Please check '/dev/sda5' and the ntfs-3g binary permissions,
and the mounting user ID. More explanation is provided at
http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#unprivileged

[Capricorny]

What are the entries for /dev/sda5 in /etc/fstab (and, eventually, /etc/mtab)?

[krishna.murphy]

Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
Error opening '/dev/sda5': Permission denied
Failed to mount '/dev/sda5': Permission denied
Please check '/dev/sda5' and the ntfs-3g binary permissions,
and the mounting user ID. More explanation is provided at
http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#unprivileged

It would seem that you're after something on an NTFS partition, possibly even causing an attempted mount read-write. Perhaps the better solution would be to copy the file to another medium (flash?) or partition. I'd be curious to know the result!

Cheers!
Krishna :mrgreen:

[mecho]

Yes, it is only with ntfs partitions. Pcmanfm mounts them just fine, but I can't mount through application. VFAT works though. I can mount VFAT using file open in any application.