Re: [PLUG] Linux Journal magazine is no more

2017-12-01 Thread Michael Barnes
I loved Linux Journal and subscribed for many years. I let my subscription go when they went digital as I didn't really have the resources to read it at the time. I always meant to resubscribe, but never got to it. Their web site let me order the 1994-2017 archive CD tonight, I hope I get it. I

Re: [PLUG] Permissions over house network

2017-12-01 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Use NFS instead of Samba for ordinary sharing and replicate the user accounts on the NFS server. That is probably the easiest. Alternatively, you could setup a samba/active domain for central authentication, so that you are the same user everywhere. That would take care of it. Tomas On Dec 1,

[PLUG] Linux Journal magazine is no more

2017-12-01 Thread Tomas Kuchta
For those who remember the experience of actually reading a magazine front to back, rather than just flicking pages full of shiny advertisement - another one bites the dust. So long Linux Journal ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org

Re: [PLUG] Moving from HDD to SSD

2017-12-01 Thread Chuck Hast
That is what I ended up doing, It did well. Actually I copied the old files on the new directory, it asked if I wanted to merge them, I merged them. The only things that did not come across were some things in hidden directories. But I moved them manually (the themes for Gkrellm) On Thu, Nov 30,

Re: [PLUG] Permissions over house network

2017-12-01 Thread Tim Garton
How are you mounting the remote filesystems? If via NFS then I believe there's some ID mapping mechanism you can use... On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 10:05 AM, Russell Senior wrote: > One approach is to use the same uid and gid on both machines for the user. > > On Dec 1,

Re: [PLUG] Permissions over house network

2017-12-01 Thread Russell Senior
One approach is to use the same uid and gid on both machines for the user. On Dec 1, 2017 10:03 AM, "Dick Steffens" wrote: > Here's a frustration that I always fix from the command line, but would > like to learn how to have it be not necessary, if that's possible. > > Is

[PLUG] Permissions over house network

2017-12-01 Thread Dick Steffens
Here's a frustration that I always fix from the command line, but would like to learn how to have it be not necessary, if that's possible. Is there a way to set things up so that when I copy things from one machine in the house to another (using a GUI) that I don't need to change the user to