permissions issue I think , is a problem again

[G.]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 6:00 PM, G. <pegngaryubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
> sudo chown spanish:spanish /media/hdb2
>
> I found this at last.  It changed permissions on the Data partition so
> I can access the files from the Spanish user.  I still have not found
> a way to log in as Gary though.
>
>
> thanks
>
> gary
>
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 3:16 PM, G. <pegngaryubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I developed a problem with user 'gary' which is the user I first set
>> up when I installed ubuntu 10.10 (upgrade from 10.04). The problem was
>> that the wireless would not connect to the connection I had been
>> using for some months.  I set up a second user, 'Spanish.'  The
>> wireless device connected perfectly.  After some time trying to figure
>> out what was wrong with the wireless connection, I decided it would be
>> easier just to move the files I had in gary over to Spanish.  Fine, no
>> problem.
>>
>> However, I have most files stored on a partition called Data.  For
>> some reason, some of these folders are restricted from use by the user
>> Spanish.  I changed the home folder in Spanish to home/gary.  That did
>> not help.  I logged in as 'gary' to see if I could change the
>> permissions from there, and I get the following two errors:
>>
>> 1) usr/lib/libconf2-4/gcnonf-sanity-check-2 exited with status 256
>> 2) could not update ICEauthority
>>
>> 1)
>> I read http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1587918.  I tried
>> changing permissions with sudo chown.  I tried a coupe of other things
>> so I could get back into 'gary'
>>
>> 2)  I tried deleting home/gary/.ICEauthority but file is not found.
>>
>> I tried several other things with 1 and 2 without success so i need a
>> bit of assistance.
>>
>

I installed Ubuntu 11.04.  Can not access the files on the Data
partition.  I tried sudo chown as above without success.  If from
terminal I do sudo nautilus I can change permissions on a folder but
not anything within the folder.

Still looking for assistance.


thanks

garyk