I'm dual booting xp and ubuntu. I mostly use Ubuntu for my daily Internet browsing, sometimes i need to access some software installed in xp, so i need to restart my laptop and then login to windows to access that particular application.
Is there anyway to access my already installed xp from ubuntu using virtual box or any similar software.
I am using ubuntu 11.04 in my home desktop. Is it necessary that firewall should be active inorder to avoid hack? I heard that we will not be given static ip address, only paid one will get static ip address that can be used for web server implementation. If my system doesnt have static address then can others access my system?
View 9 Replies View RelatedHis laptop was rebooted and when it loads then it stops after the white ubuntu logo (Karmic version) in a black screen with the message in the top left corner:
init crypto disk. He is desperate to get his information out from the "home folder" and there is denied access to this when booting the system via CD. So I was thinking there might be a pass through "safe mode". How do we make a copy of his home folder and access this information from safe mode.(He is pretty f... if he doesnt get this work out fast)
My linux /ubuntu level i on a starter/user level so if you have some great ideas spell them for me. ooh yes I HAVE looked through other treads, but there have not been a geek good enough to solve the "init crypto disk" problem so others with the same problem was able boot normally.
While messing around with file permissions and ownership of /var/www/ i seem to have locked myself out of being able to administer users on my 9.10 system.
when I go to the user administration screen in the icon with the keys is grayed out. with the message "not authorized to make changes". My account seems to have lost admin access. But, I'm the only user on the system.
I presumed I somehow changed my group status from the root group to something else
but, sudo usermod -g root [my name] just returns "no changes made"
All I can do for now is run as the su from the terminal. Is it possible to log into gnome with a root account?
I have a serious problem! I can not access ubuntu!
I wanted to customize the login window, and went on "System -> Administration -> Login Window" and I click "unlock" and I changed something (I do not remember), then I restarted the computer and all was well, but it appeared a black screen with two lines written, but it is too fast, I can not read what is written, and then pop the login screen, and when I put my login and password and click on enter I released a screen "terminal" at the top right.
I was running some programs on Thursday and also installing something via the software center when I started getting strange errors. Then I kept getting told that the file system was read only (when I tried to save my work in the applications and while installing software). I clicked the restart button and got a blank popup (no restart or cancel buttons). So I press the power button and it shutsdown but quicker than usual. Power is back up and it goes to busybox.
Ok so I think this is easy to fix, just boot off CD open gparted and perform a check on the filesystem. It happened before and this solved it. But when I opened gparted and tried to check the disk I get:GParted 0.6.2
I installed 11.04 last week and have been really happy with it. However, yesterday I somehow changed something that removed the "system settings" option from my power-button menu. I cannot access it via the super-button search either... So I can't access compiz, or any other settings now. It was there a couple of days ago... What did I do? How can I get it back?
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I'm a new comer to Linux world, and I wish I can find help with some difficulties that I might face.
I have a machine with Window 7 and Ubuntu (dual boot), windows 7 is installed on C drive and ubuntu installed on D drive, when I'm on Window, I put a folder named folder1 on D drive root beside (not inside) the main ubuntu folder. when I open ubuntu I can't see that file on D drive, I tried to search for it but couldn't find it, how can I access this file please ?
I am using ubuntu 10.10 netbook remix version. I want to access a remote computer outside my LAN which is running on Windows.I tried vinagre for the LAN but the result is that the client (running on windows) system goes logged off making the client completely unaware about what is going on with his system.Is there any other way to access any remote Windows system ans still the client able to see and interact while it has been accessed by ubuntu.
View 2 Replies View RelatedThere is a shared drive (on a Samba server using Solaris, I guess) on a machine in our network. In windows, in order to access it I had to map the network drive by providing it's URI (http://blah.domain.com/dir1) and a username and password. How do I achieve the same thing in Ubuntu? While a terminal based solution is all I need.
View 1 Replies View RelatedLucid 10.04, auto upgraded from 9.10, accessed through NoMachine NX from my MacBook Pro 10.6 system.
When I try to access the time settings through the System > Administration > Time and Date menu, all I get is the greyed-out display with the message Not authotized to make changes at the bottom.
With other administration functions, I am asked for sudo-style authorization with my password. That doesn't happen with Time and Date.
I have Ubuntu Studio installed on a separate drive. I recently built a new system and installed Windows 7 with Ubuntu Lucid (not Studio) onto a new and faster drive. I need to access the data on the Ubuntu Studio drive but all I get is the grub and lost+found directories along with a number of preempt files.
The drive was originally setup with LVM.
I mainly want to get the contents of my home directory copied to some other drive but can't reach it.
allow sftp access to my Ubuntu system (happens to be desktop as it's also my main system) using accounts that are not able to login normally. (I have already managed to create such accounts.) These accounts need to be chrooted (also already accomplished with the openssh daemon settings.) Where I run into problems is that I want to give them (read only) access to files outside the chroot (on another partition in fact) and the matter if made more difficult because the directories to be shared are on NTFS-3G partitions (as they are a shared linux / windows storage drive). Is this possible and if so, what do I need to do?
Edit - Forgot to include versions
Ubuntu 10.10
openssh 1.5.5p1-4ubuntu4 (the one that comes with 10.10)
I did a fresh install on this computer, ubuntu 10.10 server then put desktop on top of it.
I can run sudo -i, enter password, gain root access, but when i click system -> administration and it asks for my password, it always says my password is wrong.
I ran update manager, and my password worked fine there.
When i click system administration and run a task, the password screen looks different
Little more digging shows, it only occures on screens that use the login type of,
Enter the administrative password:
It doesn't even give me options for what user to use. And I am using the account created on install.
Here is my problem: I had a 500GB HDD, with the fallowing partitions:
C - 100GB - NTFS - Windows 7
D - 300GB - NTFS - (for staffs)
H - 100GB - NTFS - unused
Yesterday I installed Ubuntu on tha last one (H), wishing to keep also the others two partitions. Now I can not access the first two, I don't see them any more. In my Disk Usage appears only the linux partition and one "Unallocated Space" of 400GB
Do you think that i have a chance to recover my data from the two partitions that I can't see them? code...
What i really need to know is if there is a way to access a Ubuntu file system on a hard drive from a live CD. When i acess it now it just shows the Windows files on it, and i cant access the Ubuntu partition. What happened was this: I was trying to install Ubuntu on an external hard drive. I moved all the settings to the Hard drive so i didnt think it would affect my other drives. I mustve missed one of them because insteading of loading GRUB like it normally does, it came up with GRUB error 21 and did nothing. I tried to fix it, but nothing worked. I finally decided to unplug everything except the external and install it from there, so id atleast have a functioning desktop. As it turns out, my comp doesnt suport USB booting. So the only way i can use my computer is by Live CD. I was trying to fix things so i had both hard drives power supply unplugged. being slightly drowsy from staying up late that night, I plugged them in while my computer was on. the first one went in just fine, no problems. The second one though, also my master drive, i was having troubles pluging in. while i was turning it to fit in, it made a big spark and shocked my master drive. That drive had my MBR and Windows on it. Now It cant find a MBR, and i cant access the ubuntu partition on my slave drive. Is there any way to save this?? im 99.9% sure ive screwed myself over hardcore epically, but im hoping to save at least 1/2 my data.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI was running 10.04 on my Asus EEE PC. Today I upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10, but with lots of regrets. The complete desktop changed. I don't even know how to access the system settings anymore. I just wanted to start up the Twonky Media server from my personal folder again, which resides in my personal user folder, but I cannot find the folder at all! Shame on the Ubuntu team to throw around the user experience so much. The Ubuntu Linux distribution has gone back to a nerdy level, I hoped it had recovered from that. Make-the-user-feel-at-home! Is that so difficult?
Where is my Favorite group, where is my System group, where is my personal Home user folder? I'm sure I can find them on my own, but it's a shame that my user experience has been taken into a rolercoaster. Why make it so difficult on the user Ubuntu, why?
Have win 7 on one drive and ubuntu on 2nd drive then son goes and deletes partition that Ubi was in ,now cannot access any system all i get is grub rescue on screen and i cannot boot with any thing taking a guess the grub bootloader has died and made a mess of the windows bootloader.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am very close to deploying Ubuntu 11.04 to my school and need to remove the access to the "System Settings" to the students. This is the last thing I want them to get at. I had 10.04 going but ran into other problems that 11.04 solved and allave left is this problem.I can lock them out of all those nasty options you don't want students to get to in a lab setting except for this
View 5 Replies View RelatedWell i started out with installing fedora on my USB stick. I have now installed Fedora on a intern hdd. How can i access ALL the files there's on the usb? They are both Fedora 9, and i know the password for root on both systems.
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My distribution is centos 5.5.
The desktop computer of my two children has a total of three users:
1) The superuser (me)
2) The user 1001 (my elder son)
3) The user 1002 (my younger son)
Both users 1001 and 1002 can not access their files system, and also they can not save any attachments from incoming mails.
What I tried so far:
I accessed the file manager as superuser, and went: >Root>Home. Here I right-clicked on the folder User 1001, selected properties, selected the tab 'permissions' and allowed this user to read and write into this folder. I also checked the checkbox �extend this permission to all subfolders and its contents.
The problem is, when I reboot, everything is 'forgotten' and I am at quadrant zero again.
Eventually I should state that part of the folders are from a backup drive, because the hard disk had to be replaced so, once I re-installed the OS on the new hard drive, I copied the folders from the backup drive into the home folder.
One last question:
Is there a good tutorial about permissions?
i setup a localhost in my system. but am not getting access to the phpmyadmin by entering the user name and password i entered at the time of set up. the /etc/phpmyadmin/config-db.php file is shown below.
<?php
##
## database access settings in php format
## automatically generated from /etc/dbconfig-common/phpmyadmin.conf
## by /usr/sbin/dbconfig-generate-include
[code]....
when i access http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ , the login screen appears but entering the username and password as in the file gives the error #1405 cannot log into mysql server.
Every time i click 'System Settings', it says that it is Starting, but nothing else happens after that. I can access 'Advanced Settings', but not 'System settings'. A
View 13 Replies View RelatedOn my Linux boxes, I can access another machine using hostname.local as the address. How can I do something similar from Windows (XP)?
View 2 Replies View Relatedme using redhat linux.i want to to remotely access a system that have windows OS.I tried to install the utility rdesktop using following command. "yum install rdesktop" the following error occur
"Loading "security" plugin
Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
This system is not registered with RHN.
[code]....
I have configured putty on my RHEL5 pc. i just wanted to know if i can take graphical access of window pc from linux pc?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a system running with few users and servers (apache/mysql/postfix). After extracting one tar archive in '/home' none of my users are being able to access their home directory. Even other system users (like www-data/mysql) are also not being able to access any directory. Only root can access the system. I have checked file permissions, many files/directories are set to 777 rest are 755.
View 5 Replies View Relatedme using opensuse. when i wnat to access it from a remote system using ssh.the following error occur. permition denied (publickey,keyboard interactive)
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