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I wound up getting help from someone who gave me the following instructions and it works for me with far, far less hassle:

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gksudo gedit /usr/bin/mountsambashares; sudo chmod +x...

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Any more ideas...anyone?

Just an update...but for grins, I used ES File Manager from both my Nexus 7 tablet and my motorola android phone. Both were able to create a new folder and a new file in that folder. The file and...

DOH! I had that and meant to include it...



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Hi all and TIA for the assistance!

I have an Ubuntu 11.04 server running samba (cifs) with several shares. After following this Ubuntu community wiki MountWindowsSharesPermanently as well as...

hey, all, looking for some assistance in getting some nfs shares to mount using autofs (i'm on a laptop and can't use fstab). The shares mount manually.

when i issue automount -f -v and try to...

To start, I'd like to say I'm not sure this shouldn't be 2 separate posts, but since both have to do with USB, I'll start with just one and work from there. Second, I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 on an...

Hi all. I've only been a ubuntu user for a couple months and I have a question. I've been using ubuntu from a 16Gb pen drive (installed system, not a "live" one). The pen drive has the programs...

no, i'm only imaging an 80Gb drive and the target drive for the image file has 450Gb unused. I'll try out the dd commands you helped with and see where that gets me. Could be that this is a dell...

Thanks for input from both tajiknomi and P4man. I tried out the paragon software but after about 10 minutes into creating the virtual disk, it errors. I gave that a couple attempts, ...

Hello and thanks for the forums!

I'm trying to convert to Ubuntu while realizing that there are some things I will still need my WinXP to do for me. I'd like to convert the winxp part to a...

Hey, all, thanks for the forums!

My name is Eric. I'm entirely new to Ubuntu, though not necessarily new to Linux. I did some dabbling years ago on Suse and Red Hat (Linux Unleashed copyright...

As it happens, the link i intended on leaving didn't get left...the normal casper-rw block file is replaced with an actual partition (ext2) and sized however large one may need: Create a larger than...

Hi, All. First, thanks in advance to anyone who can provide assistance. Second, this is not an advertisement. :D Third, I really do eventually have a question...

Lets face it, there are a lot...

Thanks for the quick reply!

What you provided did work (using LiveUSB at that) for changing the user of my home folder to my login name, but unfortunately the login screen still freezes. I wound...

Ridgeland,

I was hoping I could solicit your assistance. I'm having a similar problem as the OP, but I don't seem to have the rights necessary from my LiveUSB to do the work (or I'm just plain...

The *only* change I made was to re-install ;) so as to turn off the login prompt. The end result is the same as when being prompted at the login window, once the system gets either to the login...

Sorry for taking so long to get back, but again, I do appreciate the help. To clarify my problem:

First, the original problem was that during post-install reboot of Ubuntu, the system would get...

Well, drs305--I appreciate that info. However, after going through the list of Grub2 commands, there didn't appear to be any file editing capability so I then tried to follow this grub2 guide on...

Ok, perhaps then there is a way to chown the home directory from the usb install i have?

thanks,

MyD0j0

Well, this isn't a very good start...

I'm new...sorta...to linux and surely new to ubuntu. Anyway, about a week ago i installed unbuntu 10.04 lts onto a usb (included the loop file) and played...