Ok, its stuff like this that\'s a real knock against linux being ready for the desktop. Since I\'ve upgraded gnome recently, automounting of usb devices has stopped working. This is annoying, although livable. Today I found a fix, if you\'re running debian with gnome and gnome-volume-manager still doesn\'t display usb drives on your desktop when you connect, make sure that /usr/bin/pmount-hal is set suid root:

chmod u+s /usr/bin/pmount-hal