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unable to access folders on slaved apple hardrive

Asked by stan barker

I have an old apple computer that has died. Hard drive is slaved (jumpers set to cable select) to Ubuntu 10.10 hard drive. When I try to access folders to retrieve pictures, I get a message that I do not have the needed permissions. How can I reset those permissions?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

If you run:

gksudo nautilus

You will have all the access you need. Why do you not have a backup? This would remove the need to mess around like this...

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stan barker (s-e-barker) said : 		#2

The old computer came from a relative who never did a backup.

When I tried your suggestion I got the following message:
(have I done something wrong?)

(nautilus:2194): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_free: assertion `value != NULL' failed
eedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.GeneralError: Unable to lookup session information for process '2194'
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.

(nautilus:2194): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_free: assertion `value != NULL' failed

(nautilus:2194): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_free: assertion `value != NULL' failed

(nautilus:2194): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_free: assertion `value != NULL' failed

(nautilus:2194): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_free: assertion `value != NULL' failed

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Don't worry about that. Can you access your data?

Can you also give the output of:

lsb_release -a

Thanks

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stan barker (s-e-barker) said : 		#4

Still no access. When I enter that into "Terminal", I get:

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10
Codename: maverick

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

Cool, does the nautilus command I gave work?

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stan barker (s-e-barker) said : 		#6

If it is supposed to gain me access to the files I want, then no, it is not working. I even tried a re-start just in case.

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stan barker (s-e-barker) said : 		#7

I have access. Thanks for the help and just color me stupid. It took me a couple of tries to realize that when I run the nautilus command and the root widow opens, that is my doorway into the old apple hard drive. I knew if any OS would do for me what i needed, it would Ubuntu. Again, thank you very much and to all in the Ubuntu development community, thanks for making such a great OS.