So, I have a external Hard drive that I am trying to share on my network. It is plugged into the usb on my TVpc, and I want to be able to access and change folders and files from my laptop. When I go to change permissions with the GUI, I click the drop down and click to change permissions, but even if I click read and write under guests or other, it will automatically change back to "None." I have no idea how to fix this and I cant access my files from another computer. any help?!
I've got a really weird problem. I just switched from at&t to comcast. Since I switched modems I had to reconfigure my wireless network. I got it done no problem, but now on the computer I set up the network with I can barely connect to the internet. I can connect to other networks using this partition; I'm doing it right now using my Nexus 4 as a hotspot, which is connected to the home wifi.
I've also got a linux Mint computer on the network that works well. I've got another home theater computer and small windows 7 computer connected no problem. The only trouble is on my laptop running 12.04 LTS. Even in my Windows 7 partition on that same laptop I can connect no problem.
I've tried deleting the connection from my saved networks and trying to reconnect to it, but no dice. Any thoughts as to what might be causing the trouble? I'm using an Asus K55VD. Thanks!
I'm wondering if there is a way to increase the Panel size at the top of the screen. I installed 12.04 on my home theater PC, but the mouse isn't as precise as on my laptop.
I want to make it easier to use the Panel and easier to click the Minimize and Close buttons. I'm using Unity, but I'm not super adverse to switching UIs.
I have come across an interesting problem. I've got an Asus K55VD with an Nvidia 610M graphics card.
I did a clean install of 12.04 off a live CD. During my first use, I chose to install the proprietary drivers. During the same session I did a complete update of my system, some 650 updates in total. When I did all the restarting, my default session has seemed to change to Unity 2D. When I run echo $DESKTOP_SESSION, I get Ubuntu-2d.
This happens even when I start the session by choosing 3d. It's not a super huge deal, but I'd like to be able to run in 3d. It won't let me change the size of the launcher, and I'm really annoyed at having the buttons so large.
I have tried to get rid of the proprietary drivers, but my computer says now that it's not using any.
Any advice? Thanks!
I did a clean install of 13.04 and now I'm having a hard time mounting my SD card. I had it working on my old system, which was also 13.04 but I had upgraded from 12.04. I can't figure out how to get it working now.
I tried this on my laptop and this is the result. Any ideas how I can fix this?
jay@jay-K55VD:~$ sudo apt-get install fuse-exfat exfat-utils Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done exfat-utils is already the newest version.
The following NEW packages will be installed: fuse-exfat 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/26.4 kB of archives.
After this operation, 98.3 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 189001 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking fuse-exfat (from .../fuse-exfat_1.0.1-1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/fuse-exfat_1.0.1-1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man8/mount.exfat-fuse.8.gz',
which is also in package exfat-fuse 1.0.1-1 Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/fuse-exfat_1.0.1-1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I'm trying to install the Virtual Box extentions to add USB 2.0 functionality. While I install, a box pops up and asks for the administrative password. When I enter the password, it tells me it was incorrect and I can't install.
I only have Ubuntu installed on my laptop, and I'm the only user, so the admin password is my password.
Any help, or is this just a bug? I've got 13.04 btw.
I had my laptop run out of battery twice in the last two weeks. I went to go start it right after plugging it back in, and it hung on the "Ubuntu" screen with the little dots. I started it in the "recovery mode" setting and it sometimes says it can't mount my drive.
Now, even when it does load, my computer is running really slowly. It's nothing like it used to be...and now the brightness buttons don't work either. I have a hard time believing these things are related, but I guess they might be!
My wife said that before the computer shut down she heard a lot of mechanical noise from the laptop. Like it was running the fans and spinning the hard drive. I've got an Asus A55v with 13.04 installed.
EDIT: I also just realized that the screen moves a little bit left and right when I move the mouse to the far sides of the screen...It's almost like the screen of scrolling.
Is my only option to re install Ubuntu? Thanks for any help!
This might be a weird question, but I'm looking for the best UI that still makes use of something similar to Unity's search function.
Here's the deal; I installed Lubuntu on a computer at work. It runs super fast, and I really like the layout and usability. What I don't like is that I can't find any programs that I normally use!
For example, today I was trying to find the volume control because someone had put it on mute. I couldn't find it in the menu, so I had to right click and add the little widget to the bottom right corner of my screen to unmute it.
So, I'm asking for a UI that will still allow me to search for programs and files in the same way that Unity does...but without using Unity.
I'm having a hard time even searching for the topic. I'm trying to install Lubuntu on an old PC I have. What I would like to do is install the OS, but leave the name and password empty. I'm going to be giving this PC away, and I would like to have the recipient turn on the pc and have it ask them to create a name and a password. This is basically what Windows does when you buy it new, right?
Is there a way to make this happen in L/Ubuntu?
I've had something really weird happen to my 12.04. I was installing new desktop environments, and now I have no sound through my headphones and the "pop up" theme has changed. by pop up, I mean the icons that appear when I use hot keys to do things like change volume, brightness, etc.
I first noticed this change after I left my computer on, but was away from it. I hadn't logged out of my session, but the theme changed when I woke back up from suspend. The only other thing I had done was the regular update stuff with update manager.
So, the question is how do I go back to how it was this morning? At the very least, I can deal with the icons being different, but I need sound out my headphone jack! here's a pic
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByuTthf4CDVhVE1XdF9nTEhRalk/edit?usp=sharing
Thanks!!!
I've been looking for a fix, but no luck. my Asus 101mt has a maximum resolution of 1024x768, but I cannot select this in "Displays" since it is not an option.
I have added this resolution before, but now I can't seem to find the same information. I just did a clean install with 12.04. I am also dual booting with Win 7.
I have been trying to get this working for a while and now I switched to 12.10. I tried using xrandr, but this is as far as I get.
barzyk@barzyk-T101MT:~$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 600, maximum 4096 x 4096
LVDS1 connected 1024x600+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 220mm x 129mm
1024x600 60.0*+
800x600 60.3 56.2
640x480 59.9
VGA1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
barzyk@barzyk-T101MT:~$ cvt 1024 768
# 1024x768 59.92 Hz (CVT 0.79M3) hsync: 47.82 kHz; pclk: 63.50 MHz
Modeline "1024x768_60.00" 63.50 1024 1072 1176 1328 768 771 775 798 -hsync +vsync
barzyk@barzyk-T101MT:~$ xrandr --newmode "1024x768_60.00" 63.50 1024 1072 1176 1328 768 771 775 798 -hsync +vsync
barzyk@barzyk-T101MT:~$ xrandr --addmode LVDS1 1024x768_60.00
X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode of failed request: 140 (RANDR)
Minor opcode of failed request: 18 (RRAddOutputMode)
Serial number of failed request: 25
Current serial number in output stream: 26
Any Thoughts?