In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Lazarewicz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>** Reply to message from root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 13 Mar 2001
>16:12:54 +0000
>
>2.  Go in as root to your device and mount points and check that you indeed
>have read/write permissions set properly -- that means they should be enabled
>(checked) for whoever uses the drive.  As I had trouble with this, I just gave
>everyone that right.

Permissions are OK - I checked these first off. Like I said, if root
doesn't have permission, who does?

>3.  Go to your CD icon on the desktop, or in your directory.  Right click on
>the icon -- does the word "mount" or "unmount" show up in the menu?  If yes,
>then you should be able to click it.  If not, then you have the wrong device /
>mount point attached to your icon.  Here I get fuzzy, because this is where I
>had the most trouble and am not sure (yet) what got me out.  If neither "mount"
>nor "unmount" shows up on the file menu, delete the icon from the desktop.  Go
>to HardDrak under filesystems and see if the CD is visible there.  If it is,
>then play with the settings until it works.  If it's not, then go to /dev/### (I
>don't know the device name for your CD, and try to copy that to the desktop.
>Click on that and work with the properties. 
>
>The trick is to get the "mount" and "unmount" show up when you right click the
>icon.....
>
The devices are shown as mounted and are shown under HardDrake. However,
they remain inaccessible.
-- 
Graham Watkins

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