hello,
i have shortcuts to my cd-rw and dvd-rom drives on my root desktop and they work great. but i cannot seem to do the same on my user desktop. i make a new cd-rom device and do everything just like i did for my root account, but when i try to use the new shortcut i get a generic error about not being able to mount the drive. it says it cannot determine fs or there are too many mounted drives. if i mount the drives as root and then log in as user i can view them, but if i unmount them and then try to mount them again as a user i get the error. any ideas? thanks

it's the permissions on the file /dev/hdc or whatever you use as a /dev name.

to find out do this

ls -l /dev/cdrom (or what yours is)
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Nov 27 00:20 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc

then check the linked file
ls -l /dev/hdc
brw------- 1 david disk 22, 0 Aug 30 15:30 /dev/hdc

note the owner group and permissions of the file



you could have root as the owner if you don't want all users to access it and change its group, then add allowed users to the new group. and give the group access


or use chmod 666 to give everyone access
depends on your security issues

chmod 666 /dev/hdc

ls -l /dev/hdc
brw-rw-rw- 1 david disk 22, 0 Aug 30 15:30 /dev/hdc

i just tried all that and it was no go. this is very frustrating.

Try adding user to your fstab file.

Ex.:

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,noauto,ro,exec,unhide 0 0

yea, that's exactly what my fstab looks like too.

can you mount it something like this?


mount /dev/cdrom -t iso9660 /mnt/cdrom

thank you! that fixed it.

You're welcome.