Re: usb-key files locked by unknown user

2009-10-17 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Mark Grieveson wrote: > (even with root user). Does anyone know what may be going on? Or, can > someone suggest something I can do to better diagnose the issue? I'm > not actually sure it has anything to do with the school presentation > (which was given on a Windows computer -- I have used thi

Re: usb-key files locked by unknown user

2009-10-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 01:06:15PM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:22:54 -0400 > Mark Grieveson wrote: > > > The usb/flash drive probably has the FAT32 filesystem on it, which > > does not > > support permissions. Is it listed in /etc/fstab? The 'owner' > > option there >

Re: usb-key files locked by unknown user

2009-10-17 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:22:54 -0400 Mark Grieveson wrote: > The usb/flash drive probably has the FAT32 filesystem on it, which > does not > support permissions. Is it listed in /etc/fstab? The 'owner' > option there > might fix your problem. I think there is some sort of issue with the mount

Re: usb-key files locked by unknown user

2009-10-16 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth Mark Grieveson at 2009-10-17 12:52... > Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it, but I still get the locking, > with the following message, > > "Document file 'yourfile.doc' is locked for editing by: > > Unknown User > > Open document read-only or open a copy of the document for editing."

Re: usb-key files locked by unknown user

2009-10-16 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:42:08 + (UTC) debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > From: green > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: usb-key files locked by unknown user > > Mark Grieveson wrote at 2009-10-15 09:32 -0500: > > Hello. Files on my us

Re: usb-key files locked by unknown user

2009-10-15 Thread green
Mark Grieveson wrote at 2009-10-15 09:32 -0500: > Hello. Files on my usb-key (or flash drive, or whatever the correct > terminology is for these things) are locked for editing by an unknown > user (they're read only). I'm not sure what's causing this, but it > seems to have happened after I used

Re: usb-key files locked by unknown user

2009-10-15 Thread Jari Fredriksson
15.10.2009 17:32, Mark Grieveson kirjoitti: Hello. Files on my usb-key (or flash drive, or whatever the correct terminology is for these things) are locked for editing by an unknown user (they're read only). I'm not sure what's causing this, but it seems to have happened after I used it to gi