Dear Sridhar and Dennis, Thank you for your thoughts and help. I think I know what I am doing wrong. I have not fixed it yet but your info has made me realize what to do. Yes, I think the Rock Ridge extensions were enabled so I will disable those and try again. Thanks alot for you help.
Sincerely, Marcia On Sat, 17 Aug 2002 13:47:27 +1000 Sridhar Dhanapalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 11:29:21 -0400, Marcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dear All, > > > > I just successfully created a cdrw backup disk using Gcombust on LM8.2. After > > it was written I went to open it and I got a message that I did not have > > access rights to /mnt/cdrom. I have written a disk successfully before > > without this problem. How can I change the permissions on this disk so that I > > may open it? How did this happen in the first place? I cannot open it on my > > other computer either. Any help will be greatly appreciated. I am the only > > user on this computer so would like full permissions for myself as user. I am > > not sure how to do this. > > In /etc/fstab, look for /mnt/cdrom line. In the fourth field (fields are tab or > space delimited), you should see a set of options. Add ",user" to the end. This > will allow a user to mount /mnt/cdrom. Reboot, and hopefully everything should > be fine. > > If that doesn't work, open userdrake and add yourself to the "cdrom" group. > > Was the CD-ROM burnt using Rock Ridge extensions enabled? If so, then file > permissions were recorded to the disc. This means that the files on the disc > behave as if they're on your hard drive, in that you need the correct user > permissions to access them. > > -- > Sridhar Dhanapalan > > "The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead > all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that > it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first > place." -- Douglas Adams > >
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