K3b permissions issues.

[Robert Parker]

Hi Gabriel,

On 5/5/06, Gabriel Dragffy <dragffy at yandex.ru> wrote:
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> I have been happily burning DVDs and CDs using K3b and my laptop's burner.
> Recently the hardware has broken so I got an internal LiteOn DVD burner (one
> for a desktop PC), and put it in an external USB housing. I connect it and
> it is recognized and auto mounted as sd0 or whatever. It works absolutely
> wonderfully for everything from reading a CD to writing a DL DVD... except
> oftentimes when I press the burn button in K3b it tells me I don't have the
> permissions and I should correct it by running K3b setup. So I run this and
> it doesn't really change any settings and so K3b still gives me the same
> message. Even restarting the computer doesn't solve it and sometimes if I
> tinker long enough it works again. I can completely bypass the error by
> starting K3b as root, but I don't particularly like this or even consider it
> a solution.
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> Hoping someone can offer a better solution please?
Yes try man growisofs. K3b only acts as a front end to it, and as a go
between just adds extra complexity to everything. Many folks love it
but IMO it's the least needed application in the KDE stable.

Bob