Samba, file sharing

[Jean-Francois Messier]

In my case, for the samba setup, i used a static IP address, taken from
ouptside the DHCP range of IP addresses. All client computers get
whatever IP, but the server remains on the same one. Also useful for
remote access though SSH.

Jean-Francois Messier
Ottawa, CANADA

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Samba, file sharing
> From: "G Mc.Pherson" <gmcphrsn at yahoo.ca>
> Date: Tue, February 13, 2007 11:10 pm
> To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> Regarding your request for information on how to share files between 
> Ubuntu and Windows. You might find the following webpage helpful:
> 
> http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=94065b40e9980a766d619e8f1f8accb0&t=202605
> 
> You can use the 'ipconfig' command from a terminal window to display the 
> IP address of each and every interface on your machine.
> 
> One note of caution though, because you are using a DHCP server on your 
> router. You'll find that the server issues IP addresses on a first come, 
> first served and this means you can not be sure what machine gets, what 
> address. This causes problems with file sharing between Windows and Linux.
> 
> Your router might be able to assign a specific IP address to a specific 
> machine based on it's network mac address (ipconfig refers to this 
> address as HWaddr).
> 
> Hope this points you in a fruitful direction.
> 
> Regards
> Gord
> 
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