xapa
August 26th, 2010, 07:07 PM
Hi there, I ran into a hard problem to solve regarding permissions. I've been searching around for similar cases (as I always do) but I thing i got into a dead end.
It all started like this:
I had my karmic working just fine, and I used to watch movies in my living room's media center through wifi. These movies were in three different partitions. A fat32 on a hitachi 200gb hdd(no boot), an 140gb NTFS with windows xp(which I didn't boot in years, using it just for storage), and ubuntu's ext3 with 16Gb. The NTFS partition and the ext3 are on the same 160gb WD Caviar hdd (both bootable). (and the swap partition which I'm ignoring)
Then I upgraded to lucid a few days ago. And to do that I had to free up 30Gb of space from the NTFS, to shrink it. I had to defrag it first because Parted Magic (Gparted) was having errors on simulation. After defrag, I did the shrinking and I gave ext3 26Gb.
//Problem starts here//
Then I did the upgrade to lucid, no trouble there.
And after booting and solving some graphics problems (during this I installed Grup-pc/Grub2), I noticed that Gnome Do wasn't mounting my NTFS and FAT drives (named CAVIAR and HITACHI respectively). So I mounted them manually, authenticating myself. And even that was strange because, as I wrote the pass and hit enter, the authentication thingy didn't close by itself, and the "Autheticate" button didn't change to gray, and kept itself "pressable". I closed the auth thingy, and the disks finally mounted.
But then...I tried to watch movies in the living room, and I had problems accessing the folders. So I went back to the computer to set the permissions again (sudo nautilus, just in case) and as I changed the "Others" permissions to "Access files" it changed back to "None"...same thing with Thunar. I even tried sudo chmod, with no results. I tried changing permissions on ext3 and all was fine.
All this while searching through forums for anything. I've found some similar cases but the solutions didn't seem to work. And I'm being a bit vague about this now because I did it two days ago and didn't keep track of it all.
I guess that the problem keeping Gnome Do from mounting the drives by itself is the same problem making the mount authentication thing act odd, and it is the same problem preventing nautilus and chmod from changing permissions.
Any thoughts on that?
Thanks in advance for reading all this. ;)
xapa
P.S: oh btw, I'm using ubuntu studio. forgot about that.
It all started like this:
I had my karmic working just fine, and I used to watch movies in my living room's media center through wifi. These movies were in three different partitions. A fat32 on a hitachi 200gb hdd(no boot), an 140gb NTFS with windows xp(which I didn't boot in years, using it just for storage), and ubuntu's ext3 with 16Gb. The NTFS partition and the ext3 are on the same 160gb WD Caviar hdd (both bootable). (and the swap partition which I'm ignoring)
Then I upgraded to lucid a few days ago. And to do that I had to free up 30Gb of space from the NTFS, to shrink it. I had to defrag it first because Parted Magic (Gparted) was having errors on simulation. After defrag, I did the shrinking and I gave ext3 26Gb.
//Problem starts here//
Then I did the upgrade to lucid, no trouble there.
And after booting and solving some graphics problems (during this I installed Grup-pc/Grub2), I noticed that Gnome Do wasn't mounting my NTFS and FAT drives (named CAVIAR and HITACHI respectively). So I mounted them manually, authenticating myself. And even that was strange because, as I wrote the pass and hit enter, the authentication thingy didn't close by itself, and the "Autheticate" button didn't change to gray, and kept itself "pressable". I closed the auth thingy, and the disks finally mounted.
But then...I tried to watch movies in the living room, and I had problems accessing the folders. So I went back to the computer to set the permissions again (sudo nautilus, just in case) and as I changed the "Others" permissions to "Access files" it changed back to "None"...same thing with Thunar. I even tried sudo chmod, with no results. I tried changing permissions on ext3 and all was fine.
All this while searching through forums for anything. I've found some similar cases but the solutions didn't seem to work. And I'm being a bit vague about this now because I did it two days ago and didn't keep track of it all.
I guess that the problem keeping Gnome Do from mounting the drives by itself is the same problem making the mount authentication thing act odd, and it is the same problem preventing nautilus and chmod from changing permissions.
Any thoughts on that?
Thanks in advance for reading all this. ;)
xapa
P.S: oh btw, I'm using ubuntu studio. forgot about that.