K3b permissions issues.

[Gabriel Dragffy]

Thanks, I rather love K3b myself and it never has given me any odd problems. 
As I said it works like a charm if I start it as the root user, so I was 
hoping someone may be able to point me in the right direction for making sure 
permissions are OK.

I am already aware that K3b is a front end to growisofs and quite frankly I 
don't think my computing skills are up to the task of parsing a man page and 
burning a good DVD.

Besides since K3b is just a front-end to growisofs it would stand to reason 
that I would encounter the same problem using growisofs directly without K3b. 
It's got to be a problem with the permissions of a USB DVD writer but I have 
no idea where to start looking.

On Saturday 06 May 2006 20:07, Robert Parker wrote:
> Hi Gabriel,
>
> On 5/5/06, Gabriel Dragffy <dragffy at yandex.ru> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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