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How Do I Give All Users Read/Write Access to an External USB Drive on Ubuntu 9?
I'm sure this will be easy for someone out there! :-)
I have a Ubuntu 9.04 box that has a USB connected hard drive that I need to share out to my network. All users need to have read/write access to this drive. How do I do this using the GUI? If it's absolutely not possible to use the GUI to do this, then I guess command line will suffice.
My responses will be swift. Assuming I get help, I plan on distributing points by tomorow. Thanks guys!
I have a Ubuntu 9.04 box that has a USB connected hard drive that I need to share out to my network. All users need to have read/write access to this drive. How do I do this using the GUI? If it's absolutely not possible to use the GUI to do this, then I guess command line will suffice.
My responses will be swift. Assuming I get help, I plan on distributing points by tomorow. Thanks guys!
Which desktop manager are you using? Gnome, KDE, etc...
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I'm using Gnome.
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Cool. We're getting close. That is definitely where I need to be, but it says "You are not the owner, so you cannot change these permissions." I realize this is probably no surprise given the way Linux distros work. I am indeed the "owner" and "administrator" of this machine. I also realize the danger of doing this on the root, but this is simply a storage drive I need to give full permissions on. Any further ideas on how to "un-gray" those permissions out? I won't push this too far since it appears you've answered my original questions.
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We're headed in the right direction, but it looks like other problems are hindering me from doing what I need to do. I'll post a link here to a new post if you're interested in contributing to that one. In the mean time, you gave me both the GUI and command lines I needed to do what I need to, so I'll assign the points. Thanks!
No I dont really do this for the points, I do it to help and learn myself.
So when it says your not the owner that means your not the owner of the folder.
I am not sure how to get around this in the GUI.
But if you open a terminal and become root:
su -
<enter root password>
Then navigate to the folder ABOVE the folder in question.
for example if you want to change the permissions on /home/me/ok go to /home/me
cd /home/me
now you can change the owner of the folder like so:
chown -R <your username> ok
you can also do it using the full path from any location like so:
chown -R <your username> /home/me/ok
chown means change owner and -R means do it recursively (drill into subfolders).
Let me know if that helps.
So when it says your not the owner that means your not the owner of the folder.
I am not sure how to get around this in the GUI.
But if you open a terminal and become root:
su -
<enter root password>
Then navigate to the folder ABOVE the folder in question.
for example if you want to change the permissions on /home/me/ok go to /home/me
cd /home/me
now you can change the owner of the folder like so:
chown -R <your username> ok
you can also do it using the full path from any location like so:
chown -R <your username> /home/me/ok
chown means change owner and -R means do it recursively (drill into subfolders).
Let me know if that helps.
cd /media/drive (or whever it is mounted)
chmod -R 777 *
This will give read/write access to everybody for everything on the drive.