Same ole permissions problem

[Douglas Pollard]

Chris Mohler wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Douglas Pollard <dougpol1 at verizon.net> wrote:
>   
>>    I have been up and down on this a couple of weeks now and am no
>> farther ahead. I must really be thick. :-(
>>    I am trying to get going on making video in Cinelerra. I have had a
>> lot of help from this group.
>>    I was trying to change permissions and ownership to ( me user)
>> Ubuntu crashed or at least locked up.  I rebooted and got a message that
>> there was a problem and I would have to reboot as Root.  Apparently
>> there was no user file.
>>    I could not run so could not get on line help.  Never thought to run
>> ubuntu off a cd to get help.  OH well!!  I reinstalled Ubuntu.
>>     I have captured video with Kino and it presently belongs to root as
>> It was captured using sudo. I need to give it to  Doug ( user) and
>> change permissions so that I don't have to be root to run these videos.
>>       I have one more problem I have files that came from xp on an
>> nstf formated drive. If I move them to my homefile everyone has
>> permission to read write and execute this needs to be fixed.
>>         I moved one file to my home file and everyone has permission.
>> That has to be changed.
>>        Linux forums offers  Chmod 755 myfile.  What goes in place of
>> myfile. I replaced with doug, the reply I get from bash is no such file
>> or directory. If I can get past these stumbling blocks I can start doing
>> video.
>>     
>
> Hi Doug,
>
> The main problem you have is that you are having to use sudo to
> capture.  You should probably figure out how to capture as a normal
> user if possible.
>
> To change ownership I would:
> 1. install nautilus-open-terminal from Synaptic or apt-get
> 2. Browse to the folder with the video files
> 3. Right-click inside the folder and select "Open in Terminal"
> 4. then type (no quotes): "sudo chown doug.doug *" and press enter.
> Close the terminal
>
> Continuing to the NTFS files
> 5. Browse to the folder with the copied files.
> 6. Right-click inside the folder and select "Open in Terminal"
> 7. Type (no quotes): "chmod MODE -R *" and press enter - SEE BELOW FOR MODE
>
> I'm not sure what permissions you want.  600 is read/write for the
> owner and no access for anyone else. 644 is read/write for the owner
> and read access for everyone. 755 is read/write/execute for the owner
> and read/execute for everyone.  The chmod has an alternate syntax also
> - see the man page.
>
> Chris
>
>   
I installed  nautilus with synaptic but where is it?  I tried, click on 
Nautilus after installation went to permissions found a list of the 
paths but nothing there seems to take me to it. I have run into this 
before  and have not been able to figure it out.
                         Thanks doug