file sharing with Ubuntu

[mystmaiden]

Is there a way to share files between Puppy and Ubuntu without having to change ownership of the files for them to function in the Ubuntu machine? I noticed that when I move files from Puppy to Ubuntu, they come out as being owned by root. I think I'm missing a step or something.

[mystmaiden]

giving this a little bump

[Bruce B]

I think I'm missing a step or something.

The problem in this case is you think your missing something.

Do you want more explanation?

[bwh1969]

you could give a

You could get around this by command line mounting the share from the guest with uid & gid options or you could simply "chown" the files on the ubuntu machine.

On the ubuntu host

sudo chown <ubuntu user> -R /shared_directory

[disciple]

Defining the Samba share with the option forceuser=root wouldn't change anything, would it?

[disciple]

sorry, that should be "force user" i.e. two words

[mystmaiden]

Thanks so much for the replies. I thought maybe there was something I needed to be doing in Puppy when I moved the files. This would be so easy if Ubuntu let you run as root like Puppy does

[duke93535]

I login as root all the time in Kubuntu. Check out the Ubuntu site here.

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/88472

duke

[mystmaiden]

BruceB

The problem in this case is you think your missing something.

Ouch.

I suppose you're right though, I'm the first to admit my thinking processes do get me into difficulty from time to time. I did try to change the permissions with Puppy when I moved the files by checking 'allow user etc' but I was still left with lots of annoying padlocks.


myst - the wannabe geeky grandma who will probably always be a beginner