CD Rom & CD Writer...Have Problem, Need Troubleshoot

[jimc5]

Hello Linux Pros:

I am fairly new, but I have found Justlinux to be a fantastic and very helpful site to get my questions answered. I have found so many good,
helpful people here who have lent a good ear to my questions.

I am using SUSE 9.1, basically as a home computer, not a server.
I need some help with my CD drives, which SUSE is recognizing, but
won't let me use! I know this has got to be a dumb simple problem,
but I don't know how to solve it.

Logged in as Root, I have full permission like God, to change anything and to assign permissions to everything, so I am told.

I have two CD drives, one is just a plain jane CD ROM, just a reader
and it is /dev/cdrom and it's directory is /media/cdrom.

I also have a CD Writer, and it is /dev/cdrecorder and its directory is
/media/cdrecorder.

I have right clicked on the desktop and assigned a device icon with full permissions (I mean all permissions in existance) to each device.

Then, I am using Konqueror (KDE release 3.2.1) and as ROOT, I click
on either my /media/cdrom or /media/cdrecorder directories and it comes back and gives me a no-name error of:

"could not open folder /media/cdrom"

- or -

"could not open folder /media/cdrecorder"

I tried clicking on each directory and giving each directory full permissions for access, but when I do this, it says, these directories are just LINKS and it has the permissions greyed out.

So I am totally stumped and don't know what to do, especially because SUSE is not even giving me a CLUE as to how to fix this....

Thank you to whoever helps me! ~ Jim Clark :):) :) :cool: :cool: :) :)

[hard candy]

I can't remember if Suse has a cd group or not, if it does, try adding the user to it. Or, alternatively, is there a menu entry for k3b setup? If so, try running it.

[jimc5]

Thank you for the reply. I am not sure about your second suggestion, K3b.
What is that?

[hard candy]

I was thinking Suse installed K3b a cdwriting frontend, as default. It should be under Multimedia. Keb setup may be under System.

[jimc5]

yep, k3b is there alright, the cd writing utility. I will have a look at it.
Thanks.