Same ole permissions problem

[Douglas Pollard]

Chris Mohler wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Douglas Pollard <dougpol1 at verizon.net> wrote:
>   
>> 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
>>     
>
> Doug,
>
> I advised you to install "nautilus-open-terminal" - a small package
> that adds "Open in Terminal" to the right-click in Nautilus (the file
> manager).  You might have to log out and log back in for it to appear
> in the right-click menu.  I also assumed you are using Gnome - if
> you're using KDE I'm not sure if there is an equivalent package.
>
> Sorry for the confusion - I forgot about having to log out.
>
> Chris
>
>   
Chris
    I installed nautilus with synaptic  and have no right click open in 
terminal. I even rebooted a couple of times.  Do I need to start  
nautilus open terminal in terminal?? I am using Gnome.
                                                                      Doug