[PLUG] Permissions Denied - CDROM
Tony Rick
tonyr42 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 6 17:49:28 UTC 2007
On 10/5/07, Richard C. Steffens <rsteff at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Can anyone offer an idea as to why I get "Permissions Denied" when I try
> to mount certain CDROMs?
>
> On my recent trip to the Tetons I took along my WinXP laptop so I could
> download my Canon Digital Rebel each evening. After downloading, I also
> burned a CD so I had a backup of what was on the laptop hard drive.
>
> Today, I tried looking at those CDs on my Linux box (SuSE 10.1). When I
> put the CD into the drive, I get an alert box that says, "Permissions
> Denied". If I put the CD into the laptop drive, I can read the files
> that are on it with the Canon software.
>
> I have already copied the files from the laptop to my Linux box over my
> home network. While I have yet to download a program that can deal with
> Canon's .crw files, Konqueror happily displays Canon's .thm 160 x 120
> jpeg images. (Why Canon chose to put the .thm extension on them I don't
> know. Konqueror looked inside and found the jpeg.)
>
> Anyway, I'd like to understand what's going on. I burned those CDs as
> multiple sessions, leaving the disk open at the end of each session. I
> don't know if that matters to Linux or not.
Major caveat: I'm not a Suse user, but...
There are many posts out there that turn up by googling ' Suse CD-rom
"permissions denied" '. A couple of them said that Suse 10.1 doesn't need a
cdrom entry in /etc/fstab,
and that removing that entry solved the problem.
- tony
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