<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Dear Lars</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"> you cannot login as root using the su command.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">However you can use the sudo command before any other command that requires administrator permissions. </div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">For example you can use sudo before your mount command or to edit the /etc/fstab mount config file</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"> <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">sudo nano /etc/fstab -- to edit the fstab config file you need root provileges...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"> <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">In that case you will be prompted with a password and that one is "virtual".</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"> <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Hope that answers your question and solves your issue</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"> Regards</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Nicolas</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Nicolas A. Karakatsanis, PhD</font></span><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Electrical and Computer Engineer | Postdoctoral Research Associate</font><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">PET Instrumentation and Neuroimaging Laboratory</font></div> <div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Division of Nuclear Medicine | Geneva University Hospital</font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Faculty of Medicine | University of Geneva</font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Site Cluse - Roseraie, Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil 4,</font></div> <div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">CH-1211, Geneva 14, Switzerland</font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Tomographic Image Reconstruction and Analysis Lab</font></div> <div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Division of Nuclear Medicine | Johns Hopkins Hospital</span><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">School of Medicine | Johns Hopkins University</font></div> <div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">601 N Caroline St, JHOC Room 3263</font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Baltimore, MD, USA, 21287</font></div></div></div></div> <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 7:00 PM, <a href="mailto:LARS.EWELL@HAMPTONU.EDU">LARS.EWELL@HAMPTONU.EDU</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:LARS.EWELL@hamptonu.edu" target="_blank">LARS.EWELL@hamptonu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Nicolas,<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> Thanks for the suggestion. <u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> Unfortunately, it did not work for me (see attached screenshot).<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> That password gets me logged in, but it did not get me su/root.<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> Thanks again.<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> Regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> Lars<u></u><u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> <div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Nicolas Karakatsanis [mailto:<a href="mailto:nkaraka2@jhmi.edu" target="_blank">nkaraka2@jhmi.edu</a>] <br> <b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 08, 2014 11:45 AM<br> <b>To:</b> EWELL LARS<br> <b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:gate-users@lists.opengatecollaboration.org" target="_blank">gate-users@lists.opengatecollaboration.org</a><br> <b>Subject:</b> Re: [Gate-users] File Transfer from vGATE<u></u><u></u></span></p> </div><div><div class="h5"> <p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p> <div> <div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Dear Lars,<u></u><u></u></span></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">try the password "virtual"<u></u><u></u></span></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Regards<u></u><u></u></span></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Nicolas<u></u><u></u></span></p> </div> </div> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><br clear="all"> <u></u><u></u></p> <div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Nicolas A. Karakatsanis, PhD</span><u></u><u></u></p> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Electrical and Computer Engineer | Postdoctoral Research Associate</span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">PET Instrumentation and Neuroimaging Laboratory</span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Division of Nuclear Medicine | Geneva University Hospital</span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Faculty of Medicine | University of Geneva</span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Site Cluse - Roseraie, Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil 4,</span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">CH-1211, Geneva 14, Switzerland</span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Tomographic Image Reconstruction and Analysis Lab</span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Division of Nuclear Medicine | Johns Hopkins Hospital</span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">School of Medicine | Johns Hopkins University</span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">601 N Caroline St, JHOC Room 3263</span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Baltimore, MD, USA, 21287</span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></p> <div> <p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 5:30 PM, <a href="mailto:LARS.EWELL@HAMPTONU.EDU" target="_blank"> LARS.EWELL@HAMPTONU.EDU</a> <<a href="mailto:LARS.EWELL@hamptonu.edu" target="_blank">LARS.EWELL@hamptonu.edu</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p> <div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal">To Whom it May Concern,<u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> I’ve been trying to enable file transfer between my virtual machine running vGATE (linux, Ubutnu) and my host machine running Windows.<u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> I have created a shared file in the virtual machine, and then I was attempting to mount this file from within linux. However, the mount command requires root/su, which I do not have.<u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> Any suggestions?<u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> Thanks in advance.<u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> Regards,<u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> Lars Ewell<u></u><u></u></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal">The information contained in this message is intended only for the recipient, and may otherwise be privileged and confidential. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, please be aware that any dissemination or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. 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