Hello all. Pulling my hair out here trying to work with folders and files.
I had to reinstall Mint Victoria. After the reinstall, I copied and pasted, from another computer on my home network, several hundred files to the new install. Ie, I copied all the files in the Documents folder to the Documents folder on the new install. Same with the usual, Pictures to Pictures, Music to Music, etc.
I tried to use one of those copied pictures as a desktop background. No go. When I click on the other places button all the files in the Pictures folder are greyed out. So, I opened file manager, as root, and tried to change permissions and share the folder. Mind you, I logged in as root.
Now, when I try to create the share, I get the error message " 'net usershare' returned error 255:net usershare add: failed to add share desktop. Error was operation not permitted". I get this with every folder.
Please. What am I missing?
I had to reinstall Mint Victoria. After the reinstall, I copied and pasted, from another computer on my home network, several hundred files to the new install. Ie, I copied all the files in the Documents folder to the Documents folder on the new install. Same with the usual, Pictures to Pictures, Music to Music, etc.
I tried to use one of those copied pictures as a desktop background. No go. When I click on the other places button all the files in the Pictures folder are greyed out. So, I opened file manager, as root, and tried to change permissions and share the folder. Mind you, I logged in as root.
Now, when I try to create the share, I get the error message " 'net usershare' returned error 255:net usershare add: failed to add share desktop. Error was operation not permitted". I get this with every folder.
Please. What am I missing?