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I've just installed Ubuntu 12.04 and updated all the packages. If I connect a USB stick to the PC it is not mounted automatically, if I run, say, mount -t vfat /dev/sdc1 /media/usb_stick I get Permission denied result. So the command returns a successful result only under sudo. I'm the only user of the PC. What's is wrong? With former versions of Ubuntu it was fine.

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What are the permissions on the mount point? If you run ls -l /media What permissions do you see on the directory?

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vkirsan@sea:0:~> ls -l /media total 12 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 17 18:13 ash/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 27 19:25 clay/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 14 01:29 glint/ vkirsan@sea:0:~> – krokoziabla Sep 2 '12 at 18:47
I have deleted those subfolders, hoping that they will be automatically created when I insert a stick (as on other machine with no such a problem). But still result is the same. Could it be that I have such a restriction due to the domain policy? I'm using LikeWise Open to be in an AD domain. – krokoziabla Sep 3 '12 at 11:41
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If your USB stick is formatted ntfs make sure you have the NTFS Fuse programs installed.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g ntfsprogs;

ntfs support seems to have been removed since 12.04LTS

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Thank you. I tried USB sticks only of FAT and ext4 file systems. – krokoziabla Jan 14 at 13:25

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