I am helping a friend to set up his IDE CD-RW. He has set up everything correct and can write CD's using X-CD-Roast as root user. Problem is burning cd's as a normal user. X-CD-Roast has been set up to allow normal users, but when we want to write a CD, the following error is given: --<snip>-- Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a18-dvd (i686-suse-linux) Copyright (C) 1995-2003 Jörg Schilling cdrecord: Warning: not running as root user, fs= option ignored. Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support scsidev: '0,1,0' Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original. scsibus: 0 target: 1 lun: 0 Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to <warly@mandrakesoft.com>. cdrecord: Permission denied. Cannot open '/dev/pg1'. Cannot open SCSI driver. Note: The author of cdrecord is not to be bothered with problems in this version. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root. TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'. --<snip>-- Looks like it tries to access the device through the parallel interface (/dev/pg1). This does not make sense. Why would it use that device as normal user, but the correct interface (/dev/sg1) as root user? Any ideas? Thanks -- Andre Truter Software Engineer Registered Linux user #185282 ICQ #40935899 AIM: trusoftzaf http://www.trusoft.za.net ~ A dinosaur is a salamander designed to Mil Spec ~