It all started on a dark and stormy night. The DM was getting bored and decided to resurrect old pc parts.....

I attempted to share my cdrom drive via Samba. Some error msg poped up telling me exactly what to add to smb.conf so I could do what I wanted. Yay! It worked, or so I thought. Couldn't access the share from the network and I had apparently lost permission to unmount/eject the share. So I changed smb.conf back. No dice... I deleted the cdrom0 directory and restarted hoping all would be well. No dice... I then manually recreated the cdrom0 directory owned by root:root. Finally I figured out that it needed to be root:cdrom. So now I can read cdroms. Yay! Our hero saves the day! But wait a sequel:

Now, for whatever reason, I can't read or write to blank media, and usb won't automount.

Thanks in advance oh glorious gods of Ubuntu!

I ran across this link, while having problems auto-mounting my ipod. The procedure mentions mounting an ipod, but I'm guessing that it works for any removable media.

Thanks but no dice

So I really need access to my USB drives so I'm just going to reinstall. /home is a seperate partition so no big deal. Thanks again!

Also I can't figure out how to mark as 'solved'....

Bummer that you had to re-install, nice that you had /home on a separate partition.

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