"you can only select local files"

Ok I have installed Suse 9.3 with out any problems, the first time every thing worked fine for the root account but all the user accounts returned "you can only select local files" when I tried to access any files not in the users home directory. After the second install Now the root account is doing the same thing I can not use files that are not in the root home directory. Most of the software works but every thing I install returns an error. The files I am trying to use are images stored on a second hard drive. I installed Fedora core 4 and had absolutly zero problems. I tried Gnome and everything seems to work fine. Does anyone have any suggestions or knows how to fix this.

Thanks
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Sounds like permissions issue, do # ls -l for those directories/ files you have problem with and check what are permissions set.

Also check security level chosen in YaST:

Security and Users -> Security Settings

From there you can select 3 different default levels (check and read their descriptions) or do custom settings. Especially 'Paranoid' is very strict and that could be causing your problem.

Also the 2nd hard-drive you have, what is the filesystem on it (reiser, etx3, NTFS etc)?

Also check in /etc/fstab if it is mounted read only.

Security level is set to custom, as a matter of fact this all started when I changed from custom to level 1

second hard drive is ext3

here is the fstab

/dev/hda1 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hdb2 /Data ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda6 /data1 auto noauto,user 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap pri=42 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocha rset=utf8 0 0

Hmm, I don't see anything wrong with your Fstab.

Try reset your security level (set them to custom and enable everything you can, then increase security bit a time), it sounds to me that your settings for file permissions are set to 'Paranoid' which means you have to specify each user's rights separately.

Also do ls -l for directories files and check what permissions they are set to.

I have tried to reset the security and so far that does not help. Whats bugging me is it worked fine when a changed from fedora 3 to suse 9.3. I was playing with the security level and that is when it went to c***, and it is only with KDE 3.4 that comes with suse 9.3. So after a week of playing with it I figured that doing a clean install would fix it but even after doing a clean install and using all the defaults that suse recomended I still have the problem.

I appreciate your help pete_1967

here is th output from the console

linux:/Data_1/Themes # ls -l
total 4000
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Jul 1 19:47 .
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Jul 2 04:59 ..
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 142962 Jul 1 11:42 01.jpg
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 352730 Jul 1 11:42 109.jpg
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 133459 Jul 1 11:42 117.jpg
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 76942 Jul 1 11:42 125.jpg
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1343642 Jul 1 11:42 126.png
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 139576 Jul 1 11:42 254.jpg
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 188283 Jul 1 11:42 37.jpg
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 501726 Jul 1 11:42 55.jpg
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 284840 Jul 1 11:42 6.jpg
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 128448 Jul 1 11:42 60.jpg
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 245978 Jul 1 11:42 7.jpg
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 164739 Jul 1 11:42 98.jpg

Try following:

Start file manager in super user mode 'Start -> System -> File Manager -> File Manager - Super User Mode

Use it to browse to directory/ies affected, on left hand side tree panel, right click the directory and select 'Properties -> Permissions'

Check that default permissions (not for system directories!) are:

1- Owner: Can View & Modify Content
2- Group: Can View Content
3- Others: Can View Content

And that 'Only Owner Can Rename and Delete Folder Content' is un-ticked.

Then click 'Advanced Permissions' and check that no ticks are in any of 'Set UID/ GID/ Sticky' boxes.

After you've done above, select 'Apply changes to all subfolders and their contents' and click 'OK'.

After you've done this, try accessing/modifying etc files in the directory.

Ok I did what you told me. I can access files on the drive with no problem. The problem is when I right click on desktop-> configure desktop-> Background ->Open file dialog and select an image from a source other than /Home folder I get "remote files not accepted". This also happens if I try to modify the menu or create a link to an apllication. Once i click on browse and select the command file (usually in /usr/bin ) I get remote files not accepted. I can manually add the command line in the command box, select ok and it works.

I did however find under the security settings when I selected custom -> miscellaneous settings then checked Current directory in roots path and current directory in path of regular users it now works fine for selecting an image for the root user but not for a regular user. And I can select files for the menu and create link to application

I think the problem is with KDE3.4. Gnome works fine and I have no problems selecting things from any location or running any application.

Thanks again for the help

AJ