Can't burn CDs from Nautilus.

[Neil Woolford]

At 13:14 05/12/04, you wrote:


> > In simplest terms, Root is the administrator of a Unix or Linux system.
>
>Thank you very much for your explanation it is most helpful. The reason
>I ask is because when I look at the properties of my cdrom in Disks I
>think that it is set for read only. Now, If it could be amended to
>include write then I believe the problem of writing to cd would be
>overcome. Maybe I am wrong but I think it is worth a try. However, only
>Root can make this amendment. Can it be easily done?

It is fairly fiddly, and I'm afraid in this case it wouldn't help.  A CD is 
really a
read-only medium unless you are using a CD burner program and a drive which
is a CD writer, so the default permissions (read only) are correct.

The CD writing program overrules these permissions (in clever ways that I don't
understand) to allow writing.

I too am frustrated that I can't get Nautilus to write discs as it is 
supposed to;
for the moment I have worked round the problem by installing a front-end 
for the
cdwriter utility which is already installed in the default Ubuntu 
setup.  This is
inelegant but does mean I can now write discs.

The front-end is called CDR Toaster and is available as a package from the 
Ubuntu
repositories via Synaptic Package Manager;  it is not supported software so is
presumably in the 'universe' repository - you will need to enable this for 
Synaptic
to find it.

Also fiddly is that the front-end may need to be told which device to use 
to write
a CD;  the default device is /dev/sg0 which is an old SCSI device type which is
probably not appropriate, /dev/hdc is more likely to be correct.

Neil
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