[Klug-general] Baffled again - samba networking

[David Halliday]

with the sudo command. think of it as "su do".

With a standard Ubuntu install you don't (by default) get/set the super user
password. I find if you want to run multiple commands as su then it is handy
to run "sudo su".

For Linux mint I'm sure you can:
apt-get install sudo

On 27 July 2010 14:36, Michael E. Rentell <michael.rentell at ntlworld.com>wrote:

> Thanks for that pointer David. I am still having problems but haven't
> exhausted all possibilities yet. I will add that one to the list.
>
> Linux Mint claims to be son of Ubuntu. Hah! It don't do sudo but it doesn't
> say it doesn't. So you do a sudo and it just comes back 'command not found'.
> So you think the command is faulty of something.
>
> Actually with Mint you have to do su then password just like in Mandriva
> and others. Then you can make the commands. That left me lost for functions
> for 24 hours!
>
> Now there's something I've learned today.
>
> Still baffled, still trying. I'll get there. Thanks to all for the
> suggestions.
>
> MikeR
>
>
> On 27/07/10 12:55, David Halliday wrote:
>
>> I'm aware that I'm getting into this a little late and that this isn't a
>> direct answer to the question, however An article has just come up in my
>> news reader on this very subject:
>>
>> "We will look at how to convert your Ubuntu box into a Samba file server
>> and configure it to share directories with different combinations of
>> permissions."
>>
>> http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/tutorials/build-a-samba-file-server/
>>
>>
>> On 26 July 2010 20:39, Peter Apps <peter at sheppey.free-online.co.uk
>> <mailto:peter at sheppey.free-online.co.uk>> wrote:
>>
>>    If you don't have a Microsoft computer why not use openssh and sshfs
>> for
>>    networking. In Konqueror you can type
>>    fish://username@computername to get access.
>>    fish is another ssh application.
>>
>>    ssh -Xl username computername gives you console control of the other
>>    machine and
>>    sshfs username at computername:/home/$username/ /home/localuser/directory
>>    lets you mount it.
>>
>>    All on one  password
>>    Peter
>>
>>    On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 12:23 +0100, Michael E. Rentell wrote:
>>     > Good morning all,
>>     > Another knotty problem. For reasons I won't bore you with I've
>>    switched
>>     > from Mandriva/PCLOS to Linux Mint for both my home network (2 PCs
>>    wired
>>     > through a router).
>>     >
>>     > I've never used Microsoft networking and samba before (previously
>>    nfs)
>>     > so I'm way outa my depth here as that's all the networking on
>>    offer it
>>     > seems.
>>     >
>>     > When ever I try and 'see' files on the MAIN machine (I have 'shared'
>>     > them) from the BACKUP machine I get a password demand. As this is a
>>     > ubuntu derivative there is only the one password for me and that
>>    doesn't
>>     > work.
>>     >
>>     > How do I find out what password it requires?
>>     >
>>     > I'm sure this is a trivial problem, but only for those who 'just
>>    know'.
>>     > And I don't.
>>     >
>>     > Any ideas would be welcome.
>>     >
>>     > MikeR
>>     >
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