Mandrake Linux Login Problem!!!

I have Linux 10.1 running on X86 machine.
When I installed it, I created a user student apart from root.
When I wish to login, it presents me with only one username i.e.
student.
I try a lot to login with root but there is no such option. The login
screen always shows student only.
Using student, though giving it root privilidges, I can't access the
Windows network.

I am using GNOME and when I goes to network places, it shows me a
Windows domain and a workstation within it. When I clicked that
workstation, it shows an error message that 'you do not have enough
priviledges to see the contents'.
I am having the Windows 2000 machine's adminstrator password, but where
to give it?
How can it say so without asking a username and password?

So I DELETED that username student. Now I do not have any user except
root.

When I restarted the machine, to my surprise, it presents me with a
login screen asking password without a username.
Which password should I give, as there is no username?
I tried both the root and student(deleted user) password but in vein.
My computer is unusable now.

What to do? Please help asap.

-Sameer
(I was not able to find a group like comp.os.linux.mandrake, therefore
I am posting it here. Where to post questions on Mandrake Linux?)

On 23 Apr 2006 04:15:29 -0700, Sameer wrote:
> I have Linux 10.1 running on X86 machine.
> When I installed it, I created a user student apart from root.


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"Sameer" <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

>I have Linux 10.1 running on X86 machine.
>When I installed it, I created a user student apart from root.
>When I wish to login, it presents me with only one username i.e.
>student.

You mean on the gdm screen. Just login as student and open a terminal
screen and then do

su
enter the root password and you are now root

You are now root.
It is possible in one of the menu options to tell it to list all users, or
to list root as well. But it is not necessary.

>I try a lot to login with root but there is no such option. The login
>screen always shows student only.
>Using student, though giving it root privilidges, I can't access the
>Windows network.

>I am using GNOME and when I goes to network places, it shows me a
>Windows domain and a workstation within it. When I clicked that
>workstation, it shows an error message that 'you do not have enough
>priviledges to see the contents'.
>I am having the Windows 2000 machine's adminstrator password, but where
>to give it?
>How can it say so without asking a username and password?

>So I DELETED that username student. Now I do not have any user except
>root.

>When I restarted the machine, to my surprise, it presents me with a
>login screen asking password without a username.
>Which password should I give, as there is no username?
>I tried both the root and student(deleted user) password but in vein.
>My computer is unusable now.

Yes, that was silly.

alt-ctrl-F2
now login as root.

Use the addusr command to make a new user.

>What to do? Please help asap.

>-Sameer
>(I was not able to find a group like comp.os.linux.mandrake, therefore
>I am posting it here. Where to post questions on Mandrake Linux?)

YOu have used up far more resources than he ever did by posting this.


Bit Twister <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

>On 23 Apr 2006 04:15:29 -0700, Sameer wrote:
>> I have Linux 10.1 running on X86 machine.
>> When I installed it, I created a user student apart from root.


>net etiquette/Newsgroup tip:

>Multi-posting is considered antisocial on Usenet.

>If you want to send the same message to more than one newsgroup, CROSSPOST!
>And if you crosspost, provide a Followup newsgroup.

>Some will argue that you not even crosspost because of the amount/type
>of newsgroups that we have today.

>As an example to post to "comp.os.linux.security", and
>"alt.security", use the following Newsgroups line:
>Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.security,alt.security
>Followup-To: comp.os.linux.security

>See http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/xpost.html

>You conserve resources on NNTP servers, and other readers
>see the follow up answers and do not have to provide the same answer.
>Also, once a reader has "read" a message in one group, they do
>not have to see it again unless someone has provided a follow up.

>See answer given in the other news group where you posted the same question.

On 23 Apr 2006 15:48:51 GMT, Unruh wrote:
>
> YOu have used up far more resources than he ever did by posting this.

Yet you repeated it without trimming.

Yes, but be we will never know how many lurkers will remember and not
multipost.