Hello Ian, have fully reinstalled the OS exactly as required as per your written info and still get the same result. Talk about frustrating!! I can access via Putty but other than that am denied access. Am wondering if it has something to do with the Windows Home Network security and password? Don't...

Thanks for the prompt reply Ian, The following is the readout from the first command root 1697 1 0 09:29 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/webmin/miniserv.pl /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf john 3108 2988 0 10:17 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto webmin and this is all I got from the second command john ...

Hello all, During a storm a couple of days ago the system went down and connection was lost. I could not reconnect to the Linux Server (Ubuntu 12.04) so tried a full reinstall after reformat. After reinstall I cannot access via VNC or Webmin and the message is that the "target machine actively ...

Thank you very much ..... wrote read/write permissions to all necessary folders via Putty and worked a treat

Thanks again

Hello, Hoping someone can help. I have had to rebuild my server and have it up and running to the stage of it being visible on our Win7 network and accessible to all; except that I am unable to write to any drive on the server. Message received "You need permission to perform this action" ...

Thank you gentlemen.

all worked as required and the new name shows up on the network

many many thanks

Thank you for your prompt reply, Pete. Having opened both files I can see where the Shedserver name is but do not know what the next step is. Am I just to change the name? and if so how do I save the file? or is the change done realtime? Like I stated in my original post I am really new to this OS A...

Hello all ... great forum I have been creating a server following the site's instructions and found it very easy ... even for an old pensioner like me The server was created as Shedserver but after I got it going and installed a number of programs and got Samba up to allow all Windows machines to vi...