[Kikaida]

Help! How do I change permissions on a drive that won't appear on the desktop?

I was fooling around with the permissions on an external HD. Basically, I wanted to set it up so the drive wold appear when the admin was logged in, but not when other accounts were logged in. I think I set everything to be owned by the admin account, and not sure if I clicked or unclicked "ignore permissions on this drive"

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[Hal Itosis]

A fix should be very possible using Terminal
(assuming the volume gets mounted perhaps).
Start by showing us the result of this command:

ls -loan /Volumes

[Kikaida]

drwxrwx--- 40 501 501 - 1462 Dec 2 09:15 Media

[Hal Itosis]

Sorry for the late reply... but "tis the season".

Okay, most would say since the user has full access there... there should be no problem.
I might suggest making system (root) the owner and admin the group, and giving others
basic read/search access:

sudo vsdbutil -a /Volumes/Media
sudo chmod 1775 /Volumes/Media
sudo chown 0:80 /Volumes/Media


That should work. (1st command redundant, but no matter).

P.S. - Don't rely on "permissions" to secure an entire volume.
Even though you locked yourself out, any admin could get in.