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By chicho Wed Jul 09, 2008 5:44 pm
yeah but when it connects theres a lock on all the folders from the mpc and it doesnt let me do anything
this wasnt going on before anybody know what it could be is it my mpc or the computer
i just got the 1000 and i guess im confused
and plus i suck with computers
it also sais folder is read only
thanks in advance
Last edited by chicho on Wed Jul 09, 2008 6:53 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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By illiterati Wed Jul 09, 2008 6:39 pm
ubuntu?

wtf?

if youre using akai's os then you cant use the mpc whilst its connected by usb.

another reason to pay for jjos.....
By dave_g Wed Jul 09, 2008 7:40 pm
Use the console/terminal to find out who owns the files and what permissions they are:

use cd to get to where it is mounted, i.e.

cd /media/mpc1k

Now list the contents in long format:

ls -l

This will give something like: (an example from my root directory)

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2008-06-28 19:38 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 139 root root 0 2008-07-09 20:17 proc
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 2008-06-29 21:38 root
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-07-03 21:24 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-10-16 00:17 srv


the first bit are the permissions, then number of directories, then owner and group. Then filesize, data and the filename,

The important bits are the root root bits, indicating the root owner and root group and the permissions. If the files are owned by root, permissions may be set so only root can change them.
permissions are d=directory, then left to right rwx(owners permissions)rwx(group permissions)rwx(anyone else's permissions)

if it is drwxrwxrwx, then anyone can read, write and execute the directory, if it is something like drwx------, then only the owner can do anything, others cannot even view it.
You need to set your directories (and probably files to be owned by you and/or permission for you to read/write)
you can use the chown command to change the owner and chmod to adjust the permissions. If the file is owned by someone other than you then you will probably need to be root to carry out the chmod/chown commands. You could use sudo as ubunut seems to be keen on this, i.e.
sudo chmod 777 FILENAMES

Hopefully that makes some sort of sense. You might need to do a bit of digging for extra info on file permissions but this should give you a nudge in the right direction. hint google is your friend for learning about unix/linux systems.
try this http://www.hackinglinuxexposed.com/arti ... 30417.html
By chicho Wed Jul 09, 2008 9:37 pm
thanks alot meng
ill check this whole thing out
its a bit confusing but ill get help
if not maybe i can pm you
you seem to know something about this whole situation
the thing is is that it was working fine last night
so its bugging me out
but yeah thanks for real meng
peace