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Tried to make a data CD but when i tried to actually put some data onto the CD i was informed that i don't have permissions? Could someone tell me ...
  1. 05-06-2008 #1
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    Permissions?

    Tried to make a data CD but when i tried to actually put some data onto the CD i was informed that i don't have permissions? Could someone tell me how i might get these permissions please.
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    Hi and Welcome !

    Which Linux Distro are you using? Which package did you use to make data CD?
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    Hello there and thanks for the welcome to the group.
    I am using Linux Mint 4.0. I had made an HTML file which i wanted to keep on a CD-RW. So i tried to drag and drop the file onto the CD-RW and that's when i was informed that i didn't have permission.
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    Regular users have permission to make data/burn CDs.
    Try this :
    Press Alt+F2 and type this
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    gksu nautilus
    It will open Nautilus with root privileges. Try to drop HTML file again.
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    Tried using: Alt + F2 and then typing: gksu nautilus. But i must be doing something wrong because after typing in my password i tried to drag and drop the HTML file and once again i got the same error message:

    Error while copying to "/media/cdrom0",
    You do nothave permissions to write to this folder
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    Found my way to the cdrom0 folder and saw that the owner was "root" and also the group was "root". Couldn't i change the permissions here so that the username i boot up the computer with would have all rights?
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    Post the contents of /etc/fstab file here.
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    Have you tried burning with the cd creator?

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    Quote Originally Posted by elija
    Not sure what it is in Gnome... brassero maybe?
    Yes. Its Brasero in Gnome.
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    Hope i did right. Typed: ls -l /etc/fstab
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 475 2006-10-25 14:27 /etc/fstab
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