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I never understood why some people seemed to think the ONLY problem this caused was editing configuration files (which is easy enough to get around).

robsku wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 15, 2019 6:23 pm

altair4 wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 21, 2018 10:12 am

We don't need no stinkin' gksu.
We Linux desktop users have an understandable...

Speaking of trolls, the post that you are responding to is over a year and half old.

This issue is going to get far less attention now that Ubuntu changed how sudo works. sudo no longer keeps the home environment of the user that invokes it. It changes it to root like all the other branches of Linux. Pray tell in what version? I am running Linux Mint Mate 19.2 $ echo $HOME /home/le...

majpooper wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 14, 2019 1:53 pm

Download it here:

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https://pkgs.org/download/gksu

Thank Thee

Try using this: sudo mkdir /media/$USER/private sudo chmod 777 /media/$USER/private sudo mount //srv9521.local/private /media/$USER/private -w -o username=$USER OR sudo mkdir /mnt/$USER/private sudo chmod 777 /mnt/$USER/private sudo mount //srv9521.local/private /mnt/$USER/private -w -o username=$U...

And what does this do: sudo mount -t cifs //srv9521.local/private /media/$LOGNAME/private -o username=$LOGNAME,uid=lewis A CIFS mount always mounts with owner=root. uid=lewis replaces root as owner with you. $ sudo mount -t cifs //srv9521.local/private /media/$LOGNAME/private -o username=$LOGNAME,u...

[2] What is the relationship between $LOGNAME and the user:lewis. Only $LOGNAME can get to the "private" folder so unless the two are the same it's irrelevant what the permissions on "private" happen to be. They are the same .... I do not have multiple personality disorder. FYI: The "data" partitio...

argh .... All I want to do is backup some files from one computer to another and both are running Linux Mint 19.2 Target machine is //srv9521.local Target share is /private Target user is lewis (that would be me) Screenshot 01.png Screenshot 02.png No matter what I do it tells me I do not have permi...

I will answer part one of my own question: "/var/lib/samba/usershares" For part two I only have this comment: "Consistency is next to godliness .... and this is NOT consistent" Seems I only have 'anonymous' shares working ... private ( logged in user ) is still failing. Edit: I had to set the SAMBA ...

sdet00 wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 29, 2019 3:05 am

Gosh this is needlessly complicated. Is there really no easier way to share a folder via SMB?

AMEN !!!

The thing I really hate about setting up a new Linux Machine is getting SAMBA to work. I just set a new machine to serve as repository for software, video and backups. To be fair Linux Mint 19.2 (mate) does a work better than some previous interactions ( no max protocol patch needed ). It has a seco...

well this is an old thread but ...... When trying to open the file in the native directory I get a "file is locked error" (file rights problem). database is locked.png However I copied the file to a directory ( ~/Downloads ) where I do have full rights and opened it without any problems. it has the ...

*** this is the proper syntax that WORKS in Windows *** sqlite3 "\\192.168.0.120\kwpvr\kwpvr3.db" *** no mounting of file system required *** NONE OF THE FOLLOWING WORKS IN LINUX .... WHY ??? sqlite3 "\\\\192.168.0.120\\kwpvr\\kwpvr3.db" sqlite3 "smb:\\192.168.0.120\kwpvr\kwpvr3.db" sqlite3 "smb:\\...

OK ... at least part of the problem is the mount command. In order to have read/write rights to the share from the desktop the command must include additional options: sudo mount -o username=[myname],password=[mypassword],uid=[myname],gid=[myname] -t cifs //192.168.0.120/kwpvr /mnt/kwpvr Now sqlite ...

Original Tittle: "SQLITE3 can not open network database file in readwrite mode" The new Title is a more accurate reflection of the status quo. First, version numbers: My desktop is running: Linux Mint 19.1 with the MATE 1.20.1 user interface, Kernel 4.15.0-52 Generic x86_64 The network machine is ru...

Thank thee :-) For posterity, I will answer some of my own questions: Q: is there a daemon that has to be enabled and added to start up? A: No .... or at least on Linux Mint "sudo apt-get install at" seems to get the job done Q: Does the scheduled command open up a terminal window? A: No the command...

OK ... this is going to be a really dumb question about the at command. When I search for linux and schedule all I find are references to cron. I need to schedule a command or script to run at a specific time on a specific date and cron is less than ideal for that purpose. I have tried searching on ...

"Riddle me this batman" .... I have an older HP 8300 small form factor computer. I also have one of those PCIe-NVMe adapter cards with a 256 Gbyte NVMe drive. Now linux Mint will recognize the NVMe drive and happily abuse it after the OS ( drivers ) are loaded but it can not boot from it. So my que...

I do not think I could enable IDE mode for the NVMe drive even if I wanted to. Well maybe if I enabled Legacy support but I have not done that. This does have Intel RST ( Rapid Storage Technology ) built into the BIOS and thus far I have seen no way to completely disable it. I have tried both secure...

OK ... so I am probably screwing up somewhere. I have a new toy == HP Pavilion 15.1 Inch Convertible laptop model CR0037WM I have removed the Intel Optane 16 GByte module and the original 1 TeraByte Seagate hard disk . I have installed a Crucial NVMe PCIe P1 1 TeraByte drive. I also added 4 Gbytes o...