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How to open nautilus browser as root

Asked by Benny Chin

How do I use the Nautilus browser as root to have access to some folders.

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Best Christoph Langner (chrissss) said : 		#1

Just hit "Alt+F2" an type

gksudo nautilus

This way you start Nautilus with Root-Rights.

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Vincenzo Consales (aquarius987) said : 		#2

Hi, you can type in a terminal:
gksudo nautilus or sudo nautilus.
nautilus will start with administrator rights...
Otherwise you can also install the package nautilus-gksu that enables an option when you right-click on a file (also directories and other...) in nautilus: "Open as root".
After installed it restart GNOME and your Nautilus will have the new feature.

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Benny Chin (chinbenny) said : 		#3

Thank you so very much.

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PYZORM (hellopanyin) said : 		#4

Trying to activate nautilities but to no avail pls help me!!
this shoows in the terminal after "gksudo nautilus "

Nautilus-Share-Message: Called "net usershare info" but it failed: 'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare: cannot open usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error No such file or directory
Please ask your system administrator to enable user sharing.