[PLUG] Ubuntu MATE 18.04 frustrations

Dick Steffens dick at dicksteffens.com
Thu May 17 22:37:10 UTC 2018


On 05/17/2018 11:31 AM, Tomas K wrote:
> I suspect that your local disk access issue may be permissions if you
> changed uid between the installations.
>
> That should be easy to check for:
> ls -l /media/dick/a857c2f6-6e1a-4afe-9d6e-8109105a740
> Do you own any files there?

That drive used to be the only drive on a machine back in the days of 
12.04, so it has all the 12.04 system files on it. I did drill down to 
/home/rsteff and found that all of the files there are owned by user 
dick. (I usually use rsteff as my user name, but didn't this time. I'll 
probably go through the learning curve of changing the user name one of 
these days.)

> If you do not own the files an directories and you think that you
> should, you can do it this way:
> sudo chown -R $USER /media/dick/a857c2f6-6e1a-4afe-9d6e-
> 8109105a740/someDirOrFile

I'm familiar with chown -R because usually, when I copy files from 
another machine, they end up being owned by nobody:nobody, although I 
haven't ever used $USER. I'll try that the next time. I'll describe 
another solution to the copying problem in a minute, but oddly, files I 
copied that way from the 16.04 machine to the 18.04 machine came through 
owned by dick, rather than nobody.

> Then, you can try if your access to the disk is any better.

Today, when I turned the 18.04 machine on, I didn't mount the 482 GB 
drive right away, but followed a procedure I got from the Ubuntu MATE 
community. Here's the process:

On the 18.04 machine:
1. Open *caja*
2. Click *File - Connect to Server...*
3. In the *Connect to Server* dialog box select *Windows share* as *Type*
4. Enter the *Server* name
     I was successful using either ENU-2 (the name I gave the machine) 
or its IP address.

5. Enter *Share* (name)
     For this I used Public, which is a folder I shared on that machine.

6. Remove the */* from the *Folder* field
     I skipped that the first time, but then realized I needed to remove 
it, otherwise this process would try to look at the root folder.
     Indeed, I got an error message when I tried that.

7. Enter the *Domain Name* (usually or if not really configured *WORKGROUP*)
     Here, I have the domain set to HOUSE, so I used that.

8. Enter *User Name* and
     rsteff

9. Enter *Password* valid for the share
     rsteff's password on ENU-2

10. Check *Remember this password*
11. Check *Add bookmark*
12. Enter a *Bookmark name*
13. Click *Connect

*After doing all those things, I got a Caja window looking at the Public 
folder for user rsteff on ENU-2, and successfully copied files from it. 
As I mentioned above, they came through assigned to user dick on ENU-1.
**
After doing that I mounted the 482 GB drive. It took a long time to show 
up in Caja, and I heard it crunching. I don't know for sure what it was 
doing, but eventually it finished, and I could look at files there.

> Hope it helps,Tomas

Yes, thanks.

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens





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