On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:50:09 -0700 "Richard C. Steffens" <[email protected]> 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. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
