Hey fellas...I hope someone can help me.
-I switched to Linux on my home computer. I installed Kubuntu 7.4 It found everything right, with exeption of fan control on my Sony Vaio desktop. It's little frustrating because every instruction I found on how to make this stupid fan from running constantly was very complicated for someone who came from Windows world.
Anways,before I went with install of Linux, I backed everything up from my Windows install to external Maxtor USB hard drive. That drive is in NTFS format. I have absolutely everything on it and would like to move it to my local hard drive. I ran into some problems.
First, I finally figured out how to "mount" the thing. BTW, why doesn't linux do it automatically?
But now, I have a problem with accessing it...when I double click on the icon that was put on my desktop, I get an error:
Unable to enter file:///media/sdc1. You do not have access right to this location.
Ok fine, so I guess I need to give my user name access...when I look at the properties of the drive I see permissions:
Owner is: root
Owner can view content
Group is Forbidden
Others are Forbidden
Now, I assume I would have to give ME a permissions to this drive via root. The problem is, I don't know how I thought if I logon to my dektop as root, I could do it, but it tells me that "ROot login is not allowed" WHY? Why am I so locked out of this thing? I understand that it's so I don't mess anything up, but don't let me logon? I don't get it....
I am frustrated... I really would like to keep Linux and learn it.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks in advance!
-I switched to Linux on my home computer. I installed Kubuntu 7.4 It found everything right, with exeption of fan control on my Sony Vaio desktop. It's little frustrating because every instruction I found on how to make this stupid fan from running constantly was very complicated for someone who came from Windows world.
Anways,before I went with install of Linux, I backed everything up from my Windows install to external Maxtor USB hard drive. That drive is in NTFS format. I have absolutely everything on it and would like to move it to my local hard drive. I ran into some problems.
First, I finally figured out how to "mount" the thing. BTW, why doesn't linux do it automatically?
But now, I have a problem with accessing it...when I double click on the icon that was put on my desktop, I get an error:
Unable to enter file:///media/sdc1. You do not have access right to this location.
Ok fine, so I guess I need to give my user name access...when I look at the properties of the drive I see permissions:
Owner is: root
Owner can view content
Group is Forbidden
Others are Forbidden
Now, I assume I would have to give ME a permissions to this drive via root. The problem is, I don't know how I thought if I logon to my dektop as root, I could do it, but it tells me that "ROot login is not allowed" WHY? Why am I so locked out of this thing? I understand that it's so I don't mess anything up, but don't let me logon? I don't get it....
I am frustrated... I really would like to keep Linux and learn it.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks in advance!
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