Access denied on CDROM

Fri Feb 24 15:56:52 UTC 2006

I actually had a similar problem the other day. I was trying to use
my USB flash drive, and for some reason, it kept making the
owner/group as another user who was logged in. Trying to chmod did
nothing.

Mike

On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 04:51:42PM +0100, Jean-Eric Cuendet wrote:
> Hi,
> I have something very strange. I got a CD that was burn by I don't know 
> which Windows tool. When inserting into the tray, it was mounted ok on 
> /media/xxx but when I wanted to look at the prictures, I got "Permission 
> denied" errors.
> To my great surprise, all the files were owned by a not existing user 
> (UID=501 which is not available on my system) and read-only by him. So I 
> was denied access. Any idea why? And telling uid=<me> to mount in fstab 
> didn't changed anything...
> 
> Thanks
> -jec
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