Same ole permissions problem

[Douglas Pollard]

Douglas Pollard wrote:
> 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
>
>   
    Here is what i found was my problem using nautilus open terminal.. I 
was trying to click on individual files  (misunderstood).  Open with 
terminal apears when selecting folders but does not on individual video 
files.  I click on an open space in nautilus and open in terminal 
appeared, put in code and all is well.
    A huge part of my problem is feeling pushed to get on with the video 
so I am skimming the reading.   At my age that does not work I really 
need to take the time to read slowly and each thing several times.  Any 
way thanks a lot all.
                                                             Doug