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2 Hours Ago

bab1 replied to a thread chown and chmod are not working in General Help

Does the host use SELinux or Apparmor? Or possibly the specific directory might have the immutable attribute set (chattr)?

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2 Hours Ago

bab1 replied to a thread 13.04 dmesg: Warning: nss-myhostname is not installed in General Help

This is probably a result of the incorporation of some of systemd into Upstart routines. See here. A Google search reveals these items. My...

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1 Day Ago

bab1 replied to a thread Inherited Folder's access permissions in Absolute Beginners Section

The suid bit has the same meaning in both Linux and BSD. Namely: setuid and setgid is short for "set user ID upon execution" and "set group ID upon...

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2 Days Ago

bab1 replied to a thread Inherited Folder's access permissions in Absolute Beginners Section

In post #6 and in #8 I gave you the answer. It appears that you can't set it GUID using the GUI interface. This doesn't make much sense but it...

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1 Week Ago

bab1 replied to a thread Inherited Folder's access permissions in Absolute Beginners Section

Permissions are not inheritance ownership. Tip: don't set the UID on these folders. The user is not important if all the users are in the same...

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1 Week Ago

bab1 replied to a thread Inherited Folder's access permissions in Absolute Beginners Section

You can set a folders inheritance with the SUID and SGID bits. You set the default permissions with UMASK.

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1 Week Ago

bab1 replied to a thread How to edit etc/group and have root privileges? RE: in Absolute Beginners Section

In a sense you make it hard (on yourself) with this comment I take that to mean that you want to do everything by the GUI interface. In that case...

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2 Weeks Ago

bab1 replied to a thread DHCP server not connected in Networking & Wireless

You have to wonder what other subtle destruction has gone on since you hit the reset button. ;-)

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2 Weeks Ago

bab1 replied to a thread Samba connection issues in Networking & Wireless

The sftp protocol is really SSH. The TCP port 22 is for SSH (ssh scp and sftp). No FTP server is used at all with sFTP. The default Ubuntu install...

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2 Weeks Ago

bab1 replied to a thread Samba system config password not accepted ubuntu 13.04 in Server Platforms

Post the results of this ps aux|grep mbdPost the results of this from Ubuntusudo pdbedit -L

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2 Weeks Ago

bab1 replied to a thread Using Samba to share printers and External NTFS drive in Absolute Beginners Section

When you install Samba 3 there are 2 daemons that start at boot time. These are smbd (for file sharing) and nmbd (which provides name services). ...

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2 Weeks Ago

bab1 replied to a thread Using Samba to share printers and External NTFS drive in Absolute Beginners Section

Samba is not being done away with. CIFS is the Windows name for the updated SMB protocol. Whatever you want to call it Samba (3.6), Samba4 or CIFS,...

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2 Weeks Ago

bab1 replied to a thread DHCP server not connected in Networking & Wireless

I think @The Cog is reacting to your comment I would ask; Do you have your data backed up on a regular basis. I do, but some folks don't and...

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2 Weeks Ago

bab1 replied to a thread DHCP server not connected in Networking & Wireless

A couple of thoughts come to mind... The problem may never be fixed by update configuration files. As you stated the OS is "borked" The...

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2 Weeks Ago

bab1 replied to a thread DHCP server not connected in Networking & Wireless

Let's not start over at the beginning again. It is a DNS problem.

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2 Weeks Ago

bab1 replied to a thread DHCP server not connected in Networking & Wireless

Let's see what process is listening at port 53. What's the output of sudo netstat -tuanp|grep 53 I'm not sure what you are doing here.

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2 Weeks Ago

bab1 replied to a thread Can't write/create on second shared samba drive on windows pc in Absolute Beginners Section

You need to add the uid and gid numbers for your users so you have ownership. The dmask and fmask are the permissions but at the present time the...

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2 Weeks Ago

bab1 replied to a thread DHCP server not connected in Networking & Wireless

Ah but it does connect to the internet. This proves the point cavsfan@cavsfan-desktop:~$ ping -c4 91.189.94.12 PING 91.189.94.12 (91.189.94.12)...

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2 Weeks Ago

bab1 replied to a thread Can't write/create on second shared samba drive on windows pc in Absolute Beginners Section

You can't change fat32 permissions with chmod. The vfat file system (fat32) has no user permissions knowledge. The permissions you would see are...

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2 Weeks Ago

bab1 replied to a thread Driver for Nvidia GeForce 8300 GS in Absolute Beginners Section

It's a little more complex than that. The latest download of 12.04 Ubuntu is 12.04.4. The updates are allready in the download. If you could get...

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2 Weeks Ago

bab1 replied to a thread Driver for Nvidia GeForce 8300 GS in Absolute Beginners Section

The image shows a temporary DNS failure. The repos are available. This has nothing to do with the topic of this thread.

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2 Weeks Ago

bab1 replied to a thread DHCP server not connected in Networking & Wireless

It really depends on what method the OS is using to manage you network. It could be Network Manager if you are using Ubuntu. I assume this is what...

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2 Weeks Ago

bab1 replied to a thread DHCP server not connected in Networking & Wireless

This appears to be the case in your situation -- The IP addressing is fine. You have TCP/IP connectivity from 192.168.11.5 (the computer you are...

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3 Weeks Ago

bab1 replied to a thread DHCP server not connected in Networking & Wireless

No guessing; We need info to diagnose. What is the IP address of the host? Can you ping this address? What is the LAN side address of the...

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3 Weeks Ago

bab1 replied to a thread to fill or not to fill interfaces in Networking & Wireless

We have progressed from what is it to how it works. Now we look at why. ;-) In the above examples you have taken an individual host's IP address...

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3 Weeks Ago

bab1 replied to a thread Driver for Nvidia GeForce 8300 GS in Absolute Beginners Section

As you can see this is not just a Nvidia driver and card issue. Xorg was updated and the driver is not compatible with Xorg. For a while Nvidia...

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3 Weeks Ago

bab1 replied to a thread to fill or not to fill interfaces in Networking & Wireless

Because all the contiguous bits mask the IP address and reveal the NetID. Not really. The .17 can only exist in the 192.168.1.0 /25 network ( as the...

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3 Weeks Ago

bab1 replied to a thread to fill or not to fill interfaces in Networking & Wireless

They are part of the netmask. They are part of the contiguous flipped bits of the mask starting from the farthest left position.. Remember, from...

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3 Weeks Ago

bab1 replied to a thread to fill or not to fill interfaces in Networking & Wireless

Yes, all of the above is correct.Indeed this is true. So far we have only talked about how the OS views the bit stream, but not how the OS uses...

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3 Weeks Ago

bab1 replied to a thread to fill or not to fill interfaces in Networking & Wireless

That's why you write it in decimal but it really is a stream of on/off bits. This is more properly stated as: The subnet mask defines the Network...

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