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When I plug in a USB drive, it mounts and I can see it in Thunar file manager, but I can't access/browse it.
Can someone please point me in the right direction for browsing a mounted USB drive without getting a permissions error?

From memory (I don't recall the proper apt-get names): try the Gnome "Disks" tools. It can mount random USB sticks such that they are usable, the built in tools all fail for some reason.

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While the question is really off-topic IMO, maybe your user has not all needed group set for that, eg. under Gentoo Linux there's a group called "plugdev" where a common (non-root) user should be a member.

I'm talking about on the Parallella...

the package is gnome-disk-utility and it also gives a permission denied when you ask to mount the usb. Has anyone solved this? There has to be a command line like "sudo mount /dev/sda1" but I get "Can't find /dev/sda1" when I try it. It has been awhile since I used UNIX/Linux.

I found an answer to mounting a usb. The following works for my 32 gig stick.

sudo fdisk -l //view the devices and find the name of your usb - it will probably be the last one listed

sudo mkdir /media/external //create a mount point

sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/external // at this point I could open the device and see the files.

I had mp3 files and avi, mp4 and mkv all of which were recognized as audio and movies but when I opened them the correct application opened and they said they were playing but nothing happened.

oh yeah - when you are done don't forget to unmount the device. Either sudo umount /dev/sda1 or sudo umount /media/external