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  1. [SOLVED] Re: Help managing a secondary Desktop user account from a primary 'Administrator' acc

    Not quite finally solved :-(

    The files I'm copying to the desktop user folders are a mixture of created folders, downloaded doc, docx, pptx & pdf files and PDFs I've created. When copied some of...
  2. [SOLVED] Re: Help managing a secondary Desktop user account from a primary 'Administrator' acc

    Yes, this topic is now definitely solved thank you, the second PC is set up and working exactly as I wanted both locally and using remote access.

    Ditto with my NAS server, on 24/7 unless I take it...
  3. [SOLVED] Re: Help managing a secondary Desktop user account from a primary 'Administrator' acc

    Yep, that's exactly what I needed, thank you, another step up the learning curve :-)

    I applied 'chmod g+s .' in all the desktop folders, bar the desktop itself, and now all files written to or...
  4. [SOLVED] Re: Help managing a secondary Desktop user account from a primary 'Administrator' acc

    Ok, I've made some progress. I've set up the PC with User1 as an Administrator (uid1000) and Users as a Desktop user (uid1001).

    I've run 'sudo usermod -a -G user2 user1', logged out and back in...
  5. [SOLVED] Re: Help managing a secondary Desktop user account from a primary 'Administrator' acc

    Thank you so much for that reply, I'm just about to sit down and set the system up. There are several things you mention that have clarified what I need to do, so thanks again for the info. I shall...
  6. [SOLVED] Re: Help managing a secondary Desktop user account from a primary 'Administrator' acc

    Thanks for your reply.

    Yes I'm aware some of this is standard behaviour and I'm familiar with the sudo system which allows manual intervention when required. I spent a while trawling through docs...
  7. [SOLVED] Re: Help managing a secondary Desktop user account from a primary 'Administrator' acc

    Thanks, I've already asked in the Mint forums and had no replies.

    PaulM
  8. [SOLVED] Help managing a secondary Desktop user account from a primary 'Administrator' account

    I'm a long time user of Ubuntu, and recently Linux Mint, but have to date only had a single user on each of my PCs. I now find myself needing to create a PC with two users, an Administrator, with...
  9. Upgrade Xubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 with BTRFS RAID 1 array attached

    Hi,

    I'm not a sys admin, just an enthusiastic home user with a hardware engineering background who converted to Linux with Ubuntu 12.04.

    A couple of years ago I set up a home server that...
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