Problems with gksudo

I've been running Mint for a while. I'm trying to reinstall samba, but am having an issue. In the terminal I can't use gksudo to run anything. If I try to run nautilus from the terminal it asks for my password. When I enter the password, nothing happens. Any help? Just updated everything.

*Moved to the *MINT* sub-forum*

Sorry, thanks.

The gksu package is no-longer installed by default in Ubuntu , but I'm not sure about Mint. Gksu is a dependency of some programs and some people install it without realizing it.

I've installed/reinstalled gksudo. I don't think that's the problem. I'm prompted for my password but when I enter it, I get nothing - no error message, no blank screen, it just returns me to the terminal like nothing happened.

I've installed/reinstalled it. I'm trying to modify smb.conf, using 'gksudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf' it prompts me for my password, but when I enter it, nothing happens. No error message or anything, I'm just returned to the terminal screen.

I doubt that this is the problem, because if it was, you should see a wrong password error, but let's check this anyway.

From a terminal:

gksu-properties

Make sure that authentication mode is set to sudo.

Mint uses different default file managers depending on version and desktop environment so if you are running Cinnamon or Mate you might not have Nautilus.

Authentication is set to sudo, and I'm running Mate.

what does this produce -

sudo -H gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf

Mate uses caja so you might try the following.

gksudo caja 

Prompts me for my password, and then this: "sudo: gedit: command not found"

ben124 said: Prompts me for my password, and then this:

"sudo: gedit: command not found"

Which means gedit is not actually installed. I would have thought gedit was the default GUI text editor in Mint Mate, but I don't have recent experience of Mint. Try installing gedit or do you know what the default text editor is?

Just tried it, and I can confirm that gksudo caja works in the MATE Desktop Enviroment to open the file manager (Caja) as 'root'.

Cough cough: http://mate-desktop.org/

Pluma is a text editor which supports most standard editor features. It also extends this basic functionality with other features not usually found in simple text editors. Pluma is a graphical application which supports editing multiple text files in one window (known sometimes as tabs or MDI). Pluma fully supports international text through its use of the Unicode UTF-8 encoding in edited files. Its core feature set includes syntax highlighting of source code, auto indentation, and printing support (with print preview). [B]Pluma is a fork of Gedit.

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Have you ever run "gedit" from the terminal. My guess is you would need to:

gksu pluma /etc/samba/smb.conf

Or:

sudo -H pluma /etc/samba/smb.conf

Thanks. Will try this. It's a bit beyond my depth I think which is why I end up getting confused. Trying to set up a share folder between my linux box and windows 8.1. It was working, but all the sudden my linux box can't just shows an empty smb:///. Hoping to tweak things...

Good luck, but this thread is getting a bit confused. It started off with the emphasis on you being unable to start the file manager with gksudo, then moved to the text editor. I would imagine that was a simple application naming issue, so let us know if using "caja" and "pluma" is the answer for those two.

If you are needing help with configuring smb.conf, I suggest you start a new thread with a descriptive title which will attract those best able to help with samba shares.

I'm hoping the first part works, and then as you suggest, I was planning on starting a new thread...