On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 16:37 +0000, John Matthews wrote: > ok, I hope I can explain this. In my Terminal it has > jake...@jakewc2-desktop:~$. but in Places, desktop is spelt with an > Uppercase D. Does that make any difference. Can somebody explain what > jake...@jakewc2-desktop:~$ is/means? Maybe that is why I have so many > problems using the Terminal to do upload stuff to my server. > > John
Hi John, the jake...@jakewc2-desktop bit of that prompt shows you the user you're logged in as, followed by the hostname of your computer. The ~ really means /home/jakewc2 . If you where to type cd Desktop you'd end up with jake...@jakewc2-desktop:~/Desktop$ The $ shows that you have root priviledges, and the : is just a seperator :) So the Desktop in the places folder is the Desktop folder in /home/jakewc2 and the jakewc2-desktop is just the name of your machine. Hope that helps. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/