On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 04:47:35PM -0800, brian r wrote: | The following was buried in a previous post, however I didn't get any responses to my problem. | | cdrom and audio: | ----------------- | I want one of my workstations to be an MP3 server. | It is a Pentium 150, | 48 MB of RAM, and 15 GB HD. I installed Afterstep, and a bunch of cd/audio/mp3 | software from the potato cd. My problem is cdrom won't read audio cd's but | I can mount data cds. | If I run: I get the message: | Grip 2.91 "Unable to open the cd device. Please make..." | gtcd 1.0.51 "Error accessing the cdrome device.... | Reason: Permission denied." | similarly with other cd audio software. | I have an internal, ATAPI cdrom. My fstab for cdrom is | /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro.user,noauto 0 0 | And /dev/cdrom is soft-linked to /dev/hdc. | Permissions (when I do ls -l): | drwxr-xr-x 2 root root /cdrom | lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc | brw-rw---- 1 root disk 22, 0 /dev/hdc | | How do I fix this?
$ su root # chgrp cdrom /dev/hdc # addgroup <your_user_name> cdrom $ logout (then log back in) -D -- Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein