Permissions with DVD-RAM
 

Hello,

I have an Ubuntu 9.10 x86-64 desktop system with a multi-recorder optical drive that supports DVD-RAM.

When I login as root and I insert a DVD-RAM disk (with data) it mounts normally as a any other disk. The problem I am having is that when I login as normal user (an admin user) I do not have permission to even read the content, and thus, it does not automount. How can I fix this? Thanks in advance.

Perhaps the DVD is mounted with a wrong umask or uid/gid values. Try the following:

or
<your dvd-device> should be sr0 in most modern cases. In the last case you will be the owner of all files on the disk, which the former commands will not clear the permissions for the files.

I am not sure how to get my gid or uid (?). Moreover, it works fine when I put a CD-ROM or a DVD movie disk in, this issue is only happening with DVD-RAM and DVD+RW discs.

uid=user id, gid=group id. They can also be replaced by symbolic names.

Try the following:
Insert the disk.
Get root and unmount the disk: "umount /dev/sr0"
Then mount it by trying "mount /dev/sr0 /mnt -o uid=<your-login-name>,gid=users"
Open a shell and try to access /mnt. If you can, then the problem is due to wrong mount parameters.
If not, try to post some lines of the output of "ls -l /mnt" (the filenames can be removed, if you do not want to show them here).

This time I was able to access it through /mnt, but now the dilemma is how to get it to mount as a normal optical disk, automatically upon insertion, without having to issue any commands.
Currently my /etc/fstab has this:
/dev/sr0 /media/cdrom0 user,udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

Make the options permanent:
You can probably omit uid=...,when specifying umask

I tried the above and still did not work, but then changed it to:
And that did the trick.
Thank you very much, you pointed me in the right direction.