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I popped a DVD into my computer that I would like to read from. An icon came up for it on my XFCE desktop, and I double-clicked on it. It said that /mnt/dvd doesn't exist. Weird? Oh well, I create /mnt/dvd. I double-click on it again, and it gives me a box that reads: Failed to open directory "dvd". Permission denied. If I run "sudo thunar", I can access the DVD like I should be able to. All the CDs I've used work, how is a DVD different? What can I do to allow my regular user to read data DVDs? Isn't HAL supposed to put newly mounted devices in the /media directory instead of /mnt anyway?
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Look in your /etc/fstab file and add the iso9660 to it like so...
/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
yeah, it seem strange that I would have to do this, but it works now. Or at least that is what I did and it worked for me.
Last edited by tofu (2008-04-21 23:18:47)
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I added iso9660 to the /dev/dvd entry but I'm still getting permission denied errors when I try to read the DVD. It mounts from the regular user though.
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I have run into permission errors like you describe. I find it best to comment out the /dev/cdrom and /dev/dvd in fstab and just let HAL take care of it.
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I commented out those lines in /etc/fstab but I am still getting the permission denied error. I'm in every group related to this problem from what I can see too.
Last edited by synthead (2008-04-22 07:24:01)
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Definitely in the optical group, right?
(just checking - I had a similar thing at the weekend).
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Yeah
[max@pwn ~]$ groups
tty disk lp wheel log locate hal video audio optical storage camera power users max vboxusers
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Old post, but, bump.
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You're using "user" instead of "users" in fstab.
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