So I am extremely new to linux. So new, I decided to put an online "introductory" class into my load this semester.

I set up Gnome on a virtual machine on my home box.

And then found myself a bit disappointed. Not in linux but in the "Class".

I see linux more and more in the work place and seeing as I am a comp sci student I figured this would be a great extra class to take in order to familiarize myself with linux and working with terminal and such. The class has been a jumble of things I don't understand, the proctor for the class (I loathe to call him professor) is almost non-existent, and at this point aside from extremely basic terminal commands (ls cd) and some work in vi I don't really know much of anything.

His last homework was for us to set up an ftp server and Samba. It was totally out of the blue and in the end I couldn't do either successfully.

This home has us doing the following:
I'm going to just be honest. I don't know where this comes and while I'm sure he wants us to do these commands in terminal I'm not sure where to go.

I am sorry, I hate asking like this, and I understand if no one is willing to throw me a bone, but this class has been nothing it was sold as and nothing I was hoping it would be. I was hoping for proficiency in linux, but its been a birdshot of disjointed topics.

Thank you for anyone who lends me a hand. I hope I can learn something from the folks here about switching to linux and getting used to its environment.

Well do this once you get into the terminal (asumming you can do that otherwise i might have misread that you did go into it atleast once before)
and use these commands:
*ROOT ACCESS DETECTED*
su (log in as root default will be root on most but to specify it use: su root)
useradd -u 217 -g 217 testuser Test MFC 217 User Account ( Creates an user with userID of 217 in groupID 217 with comment of "Test MFC 217 User Account")
tail /etc/passwd | grep testuser > newusers.txt (tails the password document and looks for testuser then outputs to newusers.txt)
su testuser (log in as testuser shouldn't require an password if you want one use: passwd testuser)
/ROOT ACCESS NO LONGER APPLIES/
touch /home/newuser_home.txt (creates an file called newuser_home.txt)
tar -xvf /home/ home.tar > outputfile.txt (creates an tarball which is the same as an zip or rar and then outputs file in the document to outputfile.txt)




Disclaimer: Some people prefer to use the command sudo instead of actually logging into root use at your own risk!

Also excuse me for typo's and I might have made an typo also if you get stuck somewhere I could fire up an Linuxbox to try it myself but haven't done it myself.(doing some homework on M$ Window$ at the moment)
Cheers,
Shelledroot

Gnome is not a Linux operating system but is simply a Desktop environment. You can get some info on it at the wikepedia link below:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME

In most cases when you boot your Linux operating system, you will see the name of the distribution in large fonts on boot. There are literally thousands of sites you can find with a simple search online on how to use the "useradd" command in Linux, first link below.

http://www.tecmint.com/add-users-in-linux/

How to set up and configure Samba. The link below is for the Ubuntu Linux distribution. You would be best off googling it for the specific distribution you are using.

https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/servergu...ileserver.html

You are likely to get a number of responses asking "what have you done" because the rules here don't provided for doing other homework but do allow for helping people who have made an effort. If you are having a specific error or a specific problem you can do an online search as in almost any case there will be a site or sites with something to offer.

If the class is as bad as you say, ask for a refund of your tuition.

since waht you're describing seems command line related, and you seem to be comfortable with that, i think you should choose a different distro, maybe even one that does not have a graphical desktop at all (this can always be installed later on, if need be).

fwiw, archlinux is great and has an even greater wiki that is often refered to even when not using archlinux.
try this:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php..._adding_a_user

Hi,

you seem to have posted almost the same question in three different places. Please don't post multiple threads on the same topic.

Evo2.