Is there any way you could revive Guest Sessions in a future LTS distro? Guest sessions are good security - they give me just enough power to do what I need to do on a daily basis without risking my system. In short, Guest sessions save me from myself. I had upgraded from 16.04 to 18.04, gotten a problem I couldn't fix and was all to happy to wipe and rebuild my hard drive and return to 16.04. I can't be the only one who feels this way.
I did a clean install of Ubuntu 16.04LTS. My wireless dongle did not work. No surprise - it didn't work when I first got it. I had to manually download, compile and install a driver for it. So I tried the same thing. This time the dongle doesn't connect to the 5GHz band on my router. It connects to the 2.4 GHZ with no problem. Now I've crowded my system with too many drivers and still can't get the 5GHz band.
dkms status
8812au, 4.3.20, 4.4.0-83-generic, x86_64: installed (WARNING! Diff between built and installed module!)
bbswitch, 0.8, 4.4.0-83-generic, x86_64: installed
nvidia-375, 375.66, 4.4.0-83-generic, x86_64: installed
rtl8812au, 4.3.8.12175.20140902+dfsg, 4.4.0-83-generic, x86_64: installed (WARNING! Diff between built and installed module!)
Why is it that the drivers I've tried will connect to the low band but not the high band? How to I clean my system of unwanted/unused drivers? Can anyone help?
I have a dual boot setup with Ubuntu 15.10. I have my music stored on a separate internal (NTFS) HDD along with other files. Is there anyway to let Guest accounts access the music folder and ONLY the music folder on the second drive?
fstab gives access to the entire drive, so that is too much. It's not over a network so Samba isn't the answer either. I saw a post about gaining access using an Admin password but I'm never prompted for that and this is on a separate disk so it might be different. 2nd HDD automounts fine, I just can't get into it as a Guest user. Path to 2nd HDD is /mnt/(drive name). Owner listed as root.