RE: [newbie] access denied - Tip

2004-02-25 Thread Tobias Cloete
= winxp 15 gig = my data 7 gig = linux I hope this helps. ~Jargon -Original Message- From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 February 2004 09:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] access denied - Tip -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 24

Re: [newbie] access denied - Tip

2004-02-25 Thread brife
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 10:04, Weiers Coetser wrote: I'm sorry but I don't know if I really understand or if my problem is even the same. I'm running a Dual System mode - Windows XP and Mandrake 9.1 with KDE. This is only my second week that I am involved with Linux in any form. I manage to

Re: [newbie] access denied - Tip

2004-02-25 Thread frankieh
Have no idea if this has been answered or not.. but I've give it a shot anyway.. sounds to me like your XP partition is NTFS.. Linux can read NTFS fine, but can't write to it.. (well it can, but its probably as likely to trash the ntfs partition as it is to write to it.) so writing to NTFS is

Re: [newbie] access denied - Tip

2004-02-25 Thread Joel
I believe the problem is with the XF file system. If you are using NTFS, you cannot write via Linux yet. (I believe that this is being worked on.) If however, you have a VFAT file system, you should be able to write successfully. That's the situation on my dual boot system. I can write just fine

Re: [newbie] access denied - Tip

2004-02-23 Thread Christophe Rhein
I don't get it! How can I drag and drop files to a folder when I'm user? For the moment all I can do is write in my home directory. When I open KDE config panel as root there is no way to move files around. I think I missed something! Christophe ps: what is gksu and kdesu?? Le Dimanche 22

Re: [newbie] access denied - Tip

2004-02-23 Thread robin
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 23 February 2004 17:32, Christophe Rhein wrote: I don't get it! How can I drag and drop files to a folder when I'm user? For the moment all I can do is write in my home directory. When I open KDE config panel as root there

Re: [newbie] access denied - Tip

2004-02-23 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 23 February 2004 14:47, robin wrote: What would be really nice would be for konqueror to open a root password dialogue when you try to do something like that. IOW - just like it used to in File Manager Super User g Anne - -- Registered

Re: [newbie] access denied - Tip

2004-02-23 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday 23 February 2004 10:32 am, Christophe Rhein wrote: I don't get it! How can I drag and drop files to a folder when I'm user? For the moment all I can do is write in my home directory. When I open KDE config panel as root there is no way to

Re: [newbie] access denied - Tip

2004-02-22 Thread Jerry Barton
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 14:46:46 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try going into a terminal, and typing 'su', then your password. Then, from the terminal, open whatever program you were using to move the files(i.e. if you were using konqueror, type 'konqueror'.) This is a root version