[NTLUG:Discuss] Permissions to CDROM and Printer Issue

[Randall Gibson]

Try :
/dev/cdrom
or,
/dev/scd0   (For SCSI)

On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 10:48:09 Allen wrote:
> Being a newbie, I am a lurker both on the
> forum and in the monthly meetings.  
> But I have two issues that I'm hoping to get
> some help on.
> 
> First, recently I've decided to start playing
> with mp3's.  I am converting my 
> CD collection to that format.  The issue is
> this: when I try to run Grip (or 
> any other similar program) I get "Unable to
> open the cd device. Please make 
> sure that you are using the correct device
> (passed to the program with "-d") 
> and that you have permission to access the
> device."  Other programs just say 
> "Permission Denied".  It doesn't happen when I
> run the program as root.  
> Where do I change the permissions?
> 
> Second, I find myself often needing to reload
> CUPS so I can print. 
> 
> I am running Mandrake 7.2 on a AMD K6-2 400
> with 128meg.
> 
> I really appreciate all the help I can get as
> I want to find fewer and fewer 
> reasons to keep my WIN98 partition.  One day,
> I would like to only run 
> windows in a VMWARE session....
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Allen Lash
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