I'm thinking about installing the desktop on my Ubuntu Server (sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop).
Is there a "system restore" I can run in case I don't want the desktop anymore?
So I tried installing Fedora along side Windows 7 and after a week of using Fedora, I can't stand it and I'm switching back to Ubuntu. I'm unsure of how to install Ubuntu in place of Fedora.
Below is the screen shot of the partitions I have. (Sorry for the low quality, taken from my phone) I'm not sure exactly which device I should be clicking on to install.
My gut says I should select the root of ext4 to install. I don't see anywhere that I can delete those partions, only formatting is an option.
Suggestions?
Is it possible to tie your login password to your samba password?
Ideally every 30 days, users need to change their passwords to login into the machine and if its possible, when they update their password, it'll also update the samba password.
Well, I think I royally messed this one up.
In the process of changing permissions in my home directory, I now can't login using any of the 3 accounts I had setup, except for the Guest account.
I was using the chmod command from the terminal and received an error. Well I reboot for whatever reason and like I said, cant login.
Any suggestions for a newbie to get this fixed?
If my external drive is showing up in /home/user1/.private, would another user not be able to view this? See link for example -----> Example
user1@UB-DT2-SERVER:~$ df -lhT
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 ext4 912G 3.9G 861G 1% /
udev devtmpfs 3.0G 4.0K 3.0G 1% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 1.2G 1.4M 1.2G 1% /run
none tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none tmpfs 3.0G 116K 3.0G 1% /run/shm
/home/user1/.Private
ecryptfs 912G 3.9G 861G 1% /home/user1
/dev/sr1 udf 615M 615M 0 100% /media/WD SmartWare
/dev/sdf1 fuseblk 466G 101M 466G 1% /media/MyPassport2
How can my external drive be mounted for all users to access?
Could it be automounted on boot?
So I'm trying to understand how to change permissions on an external drive. It seems like only 1 user can connect via the Samba share.
I've read some things about installing PySDM, so beginners (like myself) don't have to edit the /etc/fstab.
Would this be something I need to change the permissions to allow other users to access the external drive?
So I have samba setup and running on my Ubuntu box. I've successfully logged in on my WinXP machine, and was able to browse my home directories but an unable to create files, folders, etc. No write access.
In my samba config, I have set the this line read only = no, thus granting access to write to my home directories. Restarted samba in terminal using sudo restart smbd and no such luck.
Is there somewhere else I need to enable write access? I also added create mask = 0775 and directory mask = 0775 but I'm not too sure what that is doing.
Any suggestions?
EDIT
I created a test share and was able to write to the share. My test share is /home/username/Pictures But when trying to write from the home directories, access denied.
So I'm trying to update my sound card driver but I need to compile first.
After entering the sudo make command, I run into errors, missing files, etc.
See link. Terminal_Lines
I've installed the build-essentials with the following command:
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential
Apparently I'm missing something but don't know what. Suggestions?
So I ran into some issues booting my machine recently. Apparently after an update is when the chaos started.
I was told to backup log files but I am unsure how to back them up. Is there anyway to automate that process?
So I was in the process of restarting the system last night and it seemed to lock up at the Ubuntu logo that normally appears when restarting or shutting down.
So after waiting an hour or so to restart, I decided to hit the power button to shut down the system. After doing so and pressing the power button once again to start the system, I selected the Ubuntu partition (dual boot machine) and it now doesn't boot at all. I can boot the other OS, which is Windows 7 ok.
There are a list of I guess internal commands listed on the screen and the last command was "Stopping Mount network filesystems [ OK ].
I've tried hitting Ctrl + Alt + Del and the system will restart but will get locked up again on boot.
Is there anything I can? I've had this happen before and being a newbie I just reinstalled the system but after this happened again, I really don't want to reinstall.
Suggestions are always welcomed! Thanks!
I'm by far no network admin, but I know on the PC I use at work, we need to change our passwords every 30 or 45 days.
Is there something like that on Ubuntu that can prompt users to change their passwords every 30, 45 or whatever days I specify?
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Gtk warning when opening Gedit in terminal
I have Ubuntu 11.10 installed on two different machines, both using x64 installs. Only one machine returns these Gtk warnings after using sudo gedit. I get these warnings when opening or saving a file.
Here is an example:
(gedit:2456): Gtk-WARNING **; Attempting to store changes into '/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: Failed to create file '/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel.KBGV9V': No such file or directory
I also get another set of warnings related to "Attempting to set permissions of" the above mention directory.
Is this something I should be concerned with? Any way to get rid of those warnings? Like I said, my other machine doesn't return these warnings in the terminal.
I'm assuming the Unity bar is the bar located on the left hand side of the screen.
Is it possible to move those icons to the desktop, like a shortcut?
I'd like mainly all external device icons, like USB and external drives to be moved, if possible.
Can this be done?
So I have 2 external hdd's mounted. When user1 is logged in, access to those external drives are ok.
When I log off user1 and log in as user2, I cant access those external drives. This is kinda related to another question I have. I think its permissions but have tried a few things to no avail.
Suggestions are welcome and appreciated!
Here's the other issue, which seems related. related issue here
Ok, so I have added two users to samba, user1 and user2.
I've also added a couple of different shares, with different path locations.
I am connecting from a Windows XP machine. User1 can connect to all shares with the proper username and password.
When trying to connect to those same shares with User2's usernames and password, I can't connect to any share, only the home directory.
Can someone lend some assistance to this?
How exactly would I rename a USB drive?
I've read that you can go into the Disk Utility, click on Edit Partition, and there is an option to rename the label but I can't click in the area to rename.
Is there any other way?
Ok, so I want to install synergy on both the Ubuntu Desktop and Server editions.
Technically the server would not have a mouse but I've heard of a program called GPM that you can install.
So, is it possible to run Synergy on both a desktop and server system?
Alright, 3 machines running, two using Ubuntu 11.10 and one on Mac OS X.
On the two Ubuntu machines, both have samba installed and configured on the same workgroup, "HOME".
On machine 1, I can see all networked machines. On machine 2, I can only see the Mac OS X machine. It doesn't show the other Ubuntu machine.
What am I missing on machine 2 to see all networked computers?
Any suggestions are welcome. I'm pretty much stumped.