Ubuntu :: 2 Separate Users Accessing Network Folder On 1 Computer
Aug 8, 2010
I've just added my wife as a seperate user on my desktop and have a question about shared network folders. So /etc/fstab mounts network folders from a second computer and until today I've mounted them to /home/David/NetworkData
This of course means that when my wife logs in she won't see them since they're not mounted to her home folder. So what folder should I use and what tricks so that we both have it visible and accessible in Places from the top menu?
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Jul 1, 2010
I'd like to restricting my ftp users to access 1 particular folder.
we have a root folder called /home everyone has aces to that so they can operate.
but then there is /home/config how can i restrict certain users from access /config folder, since this is containing sensitive files I would like for no one else but my self to be able to access it.
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Jul 24, 2010
I would like to experiment a "green" idea of virtual desktop where multiple users are served by a single powerful machine.
I have a server running 24/7. The monitor of this machine is turned off most of the time and the OS is on the login screen.
Other users, in the same local network, use less powerful machines, which could be a thin client or an old Pentium 3 machine. They access their accounts remotely and work with the GUI as if they were sitting in front of the server. Each user sees their own desktop (different themes, screen resolution, etc.). And of course it can happen that several users could log in at the same time.
The usage is modest: mostly web browsing and the usual default applications (office, wine, gimp, etc.). In particular no games or any demanding applications. The users want to use their desktop in graphical mode only.
Question: How do we call this way of using a server? Is it possible with Ubuntu? And how to implement it?
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Oct 1, 2009
Because I was browsing around in KDE and found out that I can view other users files and they can view mine.
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Jun 24, 2009
Is it possible to have a folder on user A's GroupWise mailbox that user B can access with as much permisions as user A but user B cannot access the rest of user A's mail?
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Mar 5, 2011
Just to confirm - I have come to the conclusion that it is best to have separate Ubuntu installations if users of the same computer have different default firewall blocking needs. Me and my wife have totally different Internet surfing habits. I also tend to block most of the websites that she normally uses, some of which are dialed by default when opening Firefox.
We have used one desktop computer for a while now with two users in one Ubuntu installation. It is becoming too much of a hassle having to change the firewall settings each time it was changed by the other user with a previous log-on. We also have two other computers in the household for the children. I have created a Local Repository, and download updates only on my computer, saving on time and bandwidth (the only replication that takes place is downloading the index files from the update servers for each computer). Having another Ubuntu installation on the same computer will just add to the "auto update" list.
Another advantage is that my "more secure" Ubuntu partition (which may contain sensitive information from time to time) will not be mounted when my wife is on the Internet.
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Apr 15, 2011
I have an Ubuntu 10.04 server/router with IPv6 internet connectivity (I have an internet routable /64 subnet). Since I have this abundance of IPv6 addresses I wanted to try and assign v6 addresses to specific users on the local system. I've been looking at ip6tables with packet mangling but I don't seem to be able to find out how to do this or if this is even possible.
Current configuration: eth0: Local network, has the /64 IPv6 public range active and the IPv4 LAN range. tun0: 6in4 tunnel with a ISP assigned public v6 address. eth1: Standard IPv4 internet connection.
All users on my system use the v6 address configured on tun0. I want to force them to use the /64 range which is configured on eth0. If I can force users to use a specific v6 address, I'll configure more then one v6 address on this interface based on the users userID on the system.
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Aug 19, 2011
I want to use samba in ubuntu.For samba users i make a user in my linux box like
# useradd smith
# useradd jone
These users can also login into my ubuntu system if they want. For samba I want to know that, is there any way to create separate valid list of samba users so that they may access files from windows xp.
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May 25, 2011
I've setup a FTP server in OpenSUSE 11.1 with KDE 3.5.x. (Pure-ftpd) But when I connect with an user to the FTP server I can browse to all folders on the OPENSUSE system, how can I setup one folder for all users and restrict the FTP connection to that folder only??
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Jun 20, 2011
Is it possible to restrict users with 'sudo' from accessing certain directories? Rather than just exclude cd and ls from the sudo privileges, that is.
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Jan 11, 2011
When you guys su or su -l in a X terminal as another user and/or root, do your user get a ~/.xauthXXXXXX with the magic cookie of the display owner, which allows him/her to start a GUI application? ... or is that just me? If not, under which environment (KDE, Gnome, etc) and how do you start X then?
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Feb 11, 2011
I've got a lamp solution deployed that I didn't write but I do have root access to the server. What might be the best way to determine the number of concurrent users accessing this web app throughout the day?
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Jan 13, 2011
I have a toshiba portege m200 without a cd drive or usb boot ( its a pain ) and was wondering if its possible to use my desktop to install ubuntu ( i can connect the laptops hard drive via usb)
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Apr 21, 2011
Is it possible to have a user in Ubuntu/Debian that does not have access to synaptic, apt-get, dpkg and cannot even download anything from the Web, but has root privileges otherwise?
Original post (above translated by aimar) code...
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Apr 16, 2010
I currently have samba setup and connecting. What I am trying to do is have multiple users with access to different directories. For example , let's say there are folders A B C on my Linux machine. I want one guy to see A and C and another guy to see B and C and a third guy to see them all. But I want each user to have access to change delete or execute the files within these directories that they have access to
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May 8, 2010
Many Ubuntu users seem have their /home folder on a separate partition (better security?). I have a OK dual-boot installation (Win7+Ubuntu 10.04) - should I try to move my /home folder ? If so, how ?I DO NOT want to get into any troubles with my existing setup !I have free (unallocated) disk space both outside and inside the extended partition which is used for Ubuntu (90 GB, Ubuntu is 60 GB ext4 + 7 GB swap).
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Mar 25, 2010
How to access Windows volumes from non-root users?
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Aug 1, 2010
I would like to have a server set up at home and be able to access it using a front end that I would boot from a USB drive. The reason I would do this is because at my university all of the computers are horribly slow, I have a server at home that is fast, I would sit down at one of the computers use a USB drive to boot up the computer and use it as a front end, the computer at home would be the backend. Is this doable? if so how?
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May 3, 2010
im gonna do a fresh install of ubuntu 10.04 and want to make a separate partition for the home folder.
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Aug 6, 2010
Every time I try to access the .wine folder Nautilus freezes. It may have nothing to do with wine and just be something about that folder or it's contents but here's what I have figure out so far:
-it freezes when double clicking the folder in Nautilus, right clicking, selecting folder next to it then arrow over to select
-does same thing when accessed as root
-everything worked fine when booting from a live CD
-restarting Nautilus or rebooting has no affect
-when it freezes, I can not scroll, select another folder, or do anything else in Nautilus, but it does respond to clicking the close window button by displaying the force quit dialog.
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Mar 13, 2011
i somehow managed to corrupt ubuntu 10.10 installed on my laptop and subsequently, i loaded a fresh version of ubuntu 10.10 on another partition. i want to access the data in the home folder of the other (previous) partition, but sudo nautilus gives me root privileges only in the current "filesystem" and not on the home folder of the other partition.
although i've been using ubuntu for some time now, but i am largely ignorant about most of the terminal commands.
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Oct 30, 2010
as we know in windows xp drive and folder permissions, we perform (folder-right click-properties-security tab-we check, group or user and assign ALLOW or DENY access to the folders) In the same way i want to DENY access to my windows driver sda1 & sda2 from the Debian OS. my system is being used by 3 users: user1, user2 & user3. All can access to all Volumes, so I want to Deny the users 2 & 3 from accessing my windows driver and folders. BUT i alone user 1 should have permission to access them. How do i change that in Debian 5.5? Allow/Deny Permissions to Volumes.
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Mar 17, 2011
I run a system that users may log into either remotely or physically. Multiple users may be logged in simultaneously because of the remote access, but only one user can be physically logged in at a time.With the current setup, however, if the physical user inserts a flash drive (which the OS mounts automatically) then the remote users gain access to the removable media.
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Jul 2, 2010
I'm having some issues accessing any folders besides INBOX on the lavabit IMAP server using mutt. I'm not sure if it's something I'm doing wrong specifically or if lavabit just has some funky folder setup and I don't know how to use it.Here's the server setup:[URL]though I don't think that'll do much good for my issue (more specifically: I can log in, send messages and read my inbox, but not use other folders).Here's my .muttrc:
Code:
#####.muttrc#####
set realname= '<REAL NAME>'
[code]....
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Feb 15, 2011
I'm trying to figure out a good way to access a folder within a Windows share from an Ubuntu 10.04 computer. I work at a school which uses a Windows network. Each class has one login and a folder for their work. All the folders are in one Windows share called //fses/class$. Each class does not have access to //fses/class$ (otherwise a student from one class would be able to access another class's folder) - they only have access to their own folder e.g. //fses/class$/3b.
When I try to access a class's folder from an Ubuntu computer I get an error that //fses/class$ cannot be accessed. I've got around it for the moment by using a teacher's credentials, but that's not ideal because then the students have access to other classes' work. I also tried using the 'mount' command e.g.
sudo mount -t smbfs -o username=3b,password=**** //fses/class$/3b /media/3b
This did work (although I know it'd be better to use cifs and a credentials file), but only a 'superuser' can do it, and it mounts the folder for all users. I could also give the students superuser permission for the mount command, but this seems like giving them more permission than should really be necessary. Is there any way for a user who is not a superuser to access the folder? I'd like to use something like this.
nautilus username=3b,password=**** smb://fses/class$/3b
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May 4, 2010
I installed Lucid Lynx some days ago. Whenever I try to access Vista from GRUB, the computer restarts. I haven't changed anything about how the computer starts.
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Nov 14, 2010
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Nov 19, 2010
I'm relatively new to Ubuntu and am just trying to get basic functionality without having to punt back to Windows applications on Wine (such as Irfanview).All I want to do is step through photos (by pressing a key, such as the space bar) to view & then press a keyclick to move the good ones to a separate folder.
This is so fundamental that I must assume there must be software in Ubuntu which can accomplish those two simple tasks (step through a folder and move a file to another folder). Yet, I have The Gimp, GNU Paint, Krita, KSnapshot, XFig, XPaint, etc., and none of them appear to have this basic functionality (which Irfanview has, but on Windows).
What program can view and easily MOVE the photo to a stated directory in a single keystroke? Note: All the programs can "open a file" and "save as" but this is NOT the desired fundamental operation. The fundamental operation is:
- Press a key (spacebar would be nice) to scroll to the next photo in a folder.
- Press another key combination ("control + m" would be nice) to move the photo to a stated folder
- The "index" should NOT be reset (that is, the next spacebar should show the next photograph in the folder, not jump back, perhaps hundreds of photos, to the first photo as The Gimp does, for example, after a save).
- It's ok to set the move-to folder the first time, but it should not ask each and every time which folder as it should be the default for the move command after the first move.
Note: I also tried making the icons in the Nautilus browser huge and then control-click selecting the good ones, but that makes ALL icons at all times huge, and the scroll in Nautilus is atrocious, so, in effect, that was a failure. I need a graphic program that performs this simple task. This is so fundamental of a need (to scroll through and move just the good photos to a stated folder) that I find it hard to believe I can't (yet) find a graphics display program capable of scrolling and moving photos.
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Jan 23, 2011
Every time I try to change file or folder permissions on a separate internal drive in ubuntu 10.10 desktop in sudo file manager, It sets it right back to the way it was before and doesn't save the permissions I want to change it to. The files aren't critical system files that are not even existent on this hard drive.
Its on a completely separate drive, Yet aren't I suppose to be in control of what gets changed to what? Instead of a Operating System doing something just for my safety? A simple AVI files permissions being changed shouldn't hurt anything. How to I stop ubuntu 10.10 from auto setting the permissions of my folders and files? Its really starting to me off right now. I've been looking around on google for Auto reset permissions for ubuntu, Haven't found one word about it. Yet I'm just going to assume someone might know how to resolve this? Or has dealed with this before.
I'm just trying to Forcefully set my folders on my separate drive all to 777 because they are all 775 and 755 and I can only access them with Write privileges if I run the SUDO file manager which I really hate having to do every so often I'm sure you can relate to how annoying it is to have to open up terminal and type something in to open a fully priviledged file manager.
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Jan 9, 2011
I am using SSH forwarding for accessing particular ports of a distant computer no problem. I also want to access another computer`s ports as if they are local without individually forwarding ports. In a way this distant computer will become a local computer over the internet. So instead of having localforwarding in my SSH config I just want to be able to say that this IP adress will accept all the port connections, butall those connections will be forwarded to a distant computer over the internet.
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