File Sharing

[Kim Briggs]

On 4/16/08, Willis Taylor <th1bill at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I have enabled File Sharing on the Documents folder of my Ubuntu 7.10
>  server and from the WindowsXP machine it goes right in.  From any of my
>  client machines running Ubuntu 7.10 there is no server available.  If I
>  bring up Nautilus and search with the ip addy, 172.16.*.** or if I use
>  the name of the computer/ file it tells me that it cannot display the
>  contents.  From any of my client terminals I can see the windows unit
>  but not any of the Ubuntu units.
>
>  I have been going at this for over two weeks now, please help.

Hi Bill,

I'd suggest using NFS for your linux machines.  You will never use an
application only to browse to a directory that just says "link file"
or something like that.  It is seamless.  Here are my notes:

http://kimbriggs.com/computers/computer-notes/linux-notes/nfs-setup-guide.file

cheers,
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