[PLUG] Sharing on Ubuntu

John Jason Jordan johnxj at comcast.net
Mon Jul 13 17:14:11 UTC 2009


On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:50:09 -0700
"Richard C. Steffens" <rsteff at comcast.net> dijo:

> In the Gnome file browser one can right click on a folder and choose 
> Sharing Options. Three options are presented in the Folder Sharing 
> window: [] Share this folder, [] Allow other people to write in this 
> folder, and [] Guest access (for people without a user account. If the 
> folder is not already shared, the first option is the only one not 
> grayed out. Once [] Share this folder is selected, the second option can 
> be selected.
> 
> Question: how do I make the last option available?
> 
> I have a couple of folders on this machine that I'd like to have 
> available, both for reading and writing, from any other machine in the 
> house. So far, I've only been able to make them available for reading. 
> If I want to move something there from another machine, I have to do it 
> from this machine.

Nautilus lets me down often, and most commonly when trying to change
permissions. Usually the problem is that I have to open Nautilus as
root in order to have permission to do what I want. But I hate to do
that because that will change the desktop to root's desktop. And I
can't get my desktop back unless I completely reboot - logging out and
back in again doesn't do it. It should, but it doesn't. 

As a result I just use the command line. Unfortunately, I am not really
smart enough to use Linux, so in order to figure out how to change
permissions from command line I go here:

http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/filepermissions.html

There are lots of other places with documentation. 

Personally, I would just do "sudo chmod 777 <directory name>." But
there may be better settings in your case.



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