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all of the files on an ntfs mount have full read write execut access under linux. All those multicolor directory listings show up as all green. So that might be a negative.. I know that I didn't care for that. Those comments about safety.. I doubt that they were referring to somebody else using your ...

I did open the ports suggested for ufw and nfs.

Thank you guys for the suggestions they worked well for me.

I never installed ufw.. it must be active by default.

I deactivated it and it works.

I suppose I should find the settings to allow nfw through just in case.

Thanks :-)

dolphin_oracle wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 6:10 pm Probably need to adjust or disable the firewall.

I'm not using a firewall.

I will check if ufw is active though.

I use nfs to share files with my virtual machines. I have 2 installed mx21 and mx23 recently intalled mx23 on my regular machine. Anyway, the file shares used to work. I saved and copied over my config files. I was expecting them to work here too. But when I mount the share on the vm, it doesn't ...

System: Kernel: 6.1.0-18-amd64 [6.1.76-1] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0 parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-6.1.0-18-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.36 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm v: 4.18.0 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.26.0 Distro: MX-23.2_x64 ...

It's also possible to install python2.7-minimal then link that one (in case needed). If I don't have python 2, I will be installing it, lots of things still use it. Plus I am trying to learn django which uses is python dependent. If I had gone ahead and installed that, I might not have even had ...

I will check that out.
Also I thought youtube-dl was a python 2 app.

Huckleberry Finn wrote: ↑Thu Apr 14, 2022 4:27 pm Maybe this works:

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sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python

I had my doubts about that symbolic link working.

But it did.

Thank you all for the help.

dolphin_oracle wrote: ↑Thu Apr 14, 2022 4:17 pm do the mpv videos play?

it looks like the format of the strings being passed to start mpv are not valid.

They do run from terminal in my regular account.