password to log onto system Ubuntu

[Dick Dowdell]

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 1:32 PM, James Sutton <jameboy at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

>  I am new to Linux, starting with Ubuntu.  I use windows otherwise, and
> when i log onto my machine, i have a password , yet when i boot using
> Ubuntu, the password is not accepted...the user name is the same it would
> appear, and i cannot use a blank or use the 'other' logon.  any ideas
> please?
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> James
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James,

Can I assume that you setup a user id and password when you installed
Ubuntu?

What do you see when Ununtu starts up?  Do you get a login prompt?

What version of Ubuntu did you install?

Regards,
Dick Dowdell
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