I just built a machine to be used at my Maker Space for Google Hangouts. I had room on the SSD to install most of the other Linux Multimedia tools, a soft phone, and a VNC server for the desktop could be remotely controlled and viewed on the LAN.
It is running with an XFCE Desktop interface so it uses udisks to mount the drives for users. If anyone has any big video files, it is expected that they have their own storage.
The only problem is when someone uses a filesystem that does store permissions such as ext4 instead of one that doesn't like exfat, the user account will not be able to write to the drive without changing the ownership files on the device or changing the mode of the files on the device so that everyone can do anything with the files.
Is there anything I can do other than tell people to format their drives as exfat or change the files to a mode in which everyone can read and write to them before plugging it into the machine?
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