[JStergis]

I recently installed Ubuntu 5.1 as a dual boot with Windows 2000 on my IBM 6565-85u.

When I go to almost any administration utility (Users and Groups, Logon Screen Setup) I get a box asking for the password. I type in the root password and it returns an error saying that it is incorrect, although I am sure that I have typed in the right password, checked for caps lock, and reset the root password (sudo passwd root).

What's up with this?

[CouchMaster]

Use your regular password instead of the root password and see what happens.

[JStergis]

When I do that, it shows up on the bottom as starting users and groups...

It then goes away and does nothing. I no longer get the password box,

[JStergis]

Supposedly, I found that you should be able to run visudo and add the line

%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL

and it will work.

Problem is, I try to run it and it says permission denied

[JStergis]

i ran it as sudo visudo, and it asked me for a password.

I gave it mine, then it never launched. Now it doesn't ask for a password any more.

[JStergis]

I reinstalled it without the expert mode. I have solved the original problem, but now have two different ones:

>I have a Canon S9000 and a Konica Minolta Papepro 1350W. The Canon installs fine, but the Konica installs, seems to print, but doesn't. It it connected through Parallel.

>I downloaded RealPlayer for Linux to play my ECC (I hope I didn't butcher that format name) files, I typed "chmod a+x filename.bin" in the terminal to make it executable (it's a binary file). This seems to work, but when I try to run it with "./filename.bin" it fails.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
J.S.