Tim Bolz wrote,
>My wife and I have have been sharing my main computer. Sometime she
>needs to use it and I get on the other computer. However this can be
>a problem. I use NXmachine to log into my box which she is on. The
>problem is if she is using firefox. I can't open it up because
>another instance of firefox is running. I would like to set her up
>with own user account but she uses kmail on my account. I know there
>is a way to set her up so she can read and write to my folder but be
>in her own directory. On occasion she has to be in windows and all
>she does is complain. She's familiar with Ubuntu and where everything
>is. My last post was about time on X. She says I spend a lot of time
>on the computer and I would like to see how much. If I make her own
>account she can make it her own look and feel. She doesn't like it
>when I change things. I think it will be easier on her too.
I definitely recommend creating an account for her. That will cure the
Firefox problem and the not liking it when you change the settings
problem.
I don't often use Ubuntu, but I would be surprised if there isn't a nice
friendly GUI for creating users. If you can't find it, open a terminal
window, "sudo -s", and read "man adduser".
As for mail...do you read your mail from a remote mail server? If so,
then you won't have to give her any special access to your files...just
configure her mail reader with the same settings as your mail reader, and
she'll be ready to go.
If you don't use a remote mail server (i.e. the Internet delivers mail
directly into your local machine), then I recommend setting up an IMAP
server on your local machine. Then she can read your mailbox through the
IMAP server, and it works just like the remote server case.
- Neil Parker
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