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Using sudo gedit /etc/fstab runs the entire gedit process as the root user, with full system wide privileges. As noted you can do it instead with the gvfs admin:// paths: gedit admin:///etc/fstab Or in Nautilus press Ctrl+L and type the admin:// path and then any text file opened from there opens f...

Although you mitigated the use of sudo with the -H switch it points out the issue Pjotr made in his original post: And for editing system config files, it almost feels as if we're being pushed towards abusing "sudo". In Ubuntu 18.04 this runs fine: sudo gedit /etc/fstab Well ... it doesn't run fine ...

@Flemur, I can reproduce that error: tester@vmin183xfce ~ $ gparted-pkexec ==== AUTHENTICATING FOR com.ubuntu.pkexec.gparted === Authentication is required to run the GParted Partition Editor Authenticating as: tester,,, (tester) Password: polkit-agent-helper-1: error response to PolicyKit daemon: G...

We don't need no stinkin' gksu. We Linux desktop users have an understandable feeling of superiority over those poor Windows and macOS users. You can't feel superior if you are part of the majority. Removing gksu and making all of those HowTo's out there that specify it's use useless is just a way t...

I don't know if you will get notification of this post but I have a question. Is bob@dude-uk the actual user name or is the dude-uk part really a domain? THe reason I ask is because on Win10 you can log into the machine with a Microsoft Account name which is in fact an email address. So if I log int...

There's two things about your post that has made me hesitant to reply: It's not clear if you want a samba solution or something else like AFP. I have no experience in AFP. HFS+. I have very little practically no experience with hfs+ on Linux. 1. I can log into my Mint machine from my Macs as long as...

I'm afraid I do not have an answer to your original question but I may have an insight into this one: Nemo can mount the shared folders. Unless you have modified smb.conf yourself the highest negotiated smb dialect that Nemo can attain is smb1 ( NT1 in samba-speak and vers=1.0 in CIFS-speak ). mount...

Anyways, would you mind showing me how to do it the other way also... like doing a direct access like that from the Win 7 machine to the Linux laptop shared folder? It's fine if you can't, but that would be a big bonus for me. :) It's easier on Windows: Open Explorer ( file manager ) and type: \\19...

Now open a terminal and run: Do you gain access to the share?

Just a note: Static ip addresses are your friend in Samba. If your Win7 server always had the 192.168.1.64 ip address you could create a bookmark to smb://192.168.1.64 and that would be the end of it.

Start slow. [1] Can you ping from Mint the Win7 machine by it's ip address: ping -c3 <win7-ip-address> [2] If the ping is successful run the samba client command to get a list of your shares and post the output. This is going to get tricky depending on how things are set up: smbclient -L <win7-ip-ad...

altair4 said: Anyhoo ... it looks like Mute Ant already answered this duplicate post: viewtopic.php?f=50&t=267808&p=1458449#p1458449 So, that way of mounting at fstab: UUID=(device) /media/mount-point ntfs defaults,uid=(user),windows_names 0 0 also applies for a multi-user sceario, so that both use...

To achieve what you want, simply create the mount point, set permissions on it then mount the volume in fstab. It's just the opposite. All mounts to a mount point override the permissions of the mount point with their own. All mounts - NTFS, ext4, cifs, ... Anyhoo ... it looks like Mute Ant already...

In network folder it seems I have an icon to many: LOU-P35-DSL3, lou-P-35-DSL3 SMB and lou-ThinkPad-T440 SMB. Actually that's normal. The host name without the SMB attached at the end LOU-P35-DSL3 is Samba finding netbios hosts the way Windows does it. The host name with the SMB attached at the end...

By "delete" do you mean going into the desktop and "un-sharing" them? I do not know how to answer that since I don't know what is in "a" and "public1"?

On Thinkpad when I try to open network this is message: Coul not display "network://".Nemo cannot handle "network" locations. We are in an infinite loop. That was in your very first post and it was resolved by doing this: Could not display "network:///". Nemo cannot handle "network" locations. Soun...

You've got an error suggesting something is messed up with your install of samba itself on lou-ThinkPad-T440. That will happen - especially on Mint - if at some point you uninstalled it and tried to install it again. Before it gets too complicated what I would do on lou-ThinkPad-T440 is: [1] Go into...

valid users = lou You have to add lou to the samba password database: sudo smbpasswd -a lou Unable to mount location, Failed to retrieve share list from server: Connection refused. The connection refused part comes from the smbpasswd issue. The "Failed to retrieve share list" part is impossible if ...

Could not display "network:///". Nemo cannot handle "network" locations. Sounds like you are missing a package: sudo apt-get install gvfs-backends WARNING: Ignoring invalid value 'share' for parameter 'security' Error loading services. Edit smb.conf gksu xed /etc/samba/smb.conf or gksu gedit /etc/s...

I don't know how legitimate a test this was but I followed a Howto: https://thepi.io/how-to-run-raspberry-pi-desktop-on-windows-or-macos/ and downloaded this version of pi: https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspberry-pi-desktop/. All of this done as a Virtualbox guest on Xubuntu host not Windows...

I don't know if I can help you with the raspberry pi since I do not know anything about it. But I can tell you that the output you posted and the error message that came with is unfortunately standard these days. For example: altair@xub1404:~$ smbclient -L 192.168.1.208 -m SMB3 -U smbuser Enter smbu...