ubuntu to ubuntu file sharing

[NoOp]

On 12/02/2009 07:26 AM, ssc1478 wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 7:25 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>> @ssc1478: You need to specify which version of Ubuntu you are talking
>> about. Are you talking about 8.04 (hardy), 9.04 (jaunty), or 9.10
>> (karmic)?
> 
> One is a laptop with 8.04 LTS and the other is a pc with 9.10.  I need
> to focus on the laptop since that's the one with the need.
> 
> As for nfs, I'll look into that too especially if its simple.  I
> started with samba because in the beginning I had one linux box and
> many windows boxes.  Now its about 50/50.
> 
> Phil
> 

Have a look at:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpSamba
https://help.ubuntu.com/9.04/serverguide/C/samba-fileserver.html

For the laptop; 8.04 has/had issues with samba and attempting to find
the samba server by name. You may be better to resort to opening
Nautilus (Places|Home etc) and opening the location bar (just below
'Back' & clicking the paper/pencil) and entering:

smb://<ipaddressoftarget>

example:
smb://192.168.2.101/
you can also try by machine name:
smb://mymachine/

If that works w/o issues, then save as a bookmark so you can easily go
back.

Key hints: have all domains on the same workgroup (mshome, workgroup,
whatever). If it's a fixed local network consider assigning fixed IP's
to the local machines & then add to /etc/hosts. Example:

$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost gg2.mshome
127.0.1.1 gg2

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
192.168.2.101 dod
192.168.2.102 gg-x
192.168.2.103 ggm
192.168.2.107 ggm3
192.168.2.104 hls
192.168.2.105 cia
192.168.2.106 nsa

etc.

I do this on my machines & simply don't have issues going between the
*any* of Ubuntu machines, well, perhaps with the issue of file transfer
speed - and my test bed has machines/drives from hardy to karmic (all
32bit gnome) as well as dual-boot WinXP's and several VirtualBox Win2K VM's.

As for nfs; nothing wrong with nfs & Alan provided you with good
information regarding that setup. However I've found that samba (which
you did indeed ask about in your OP) works just fine for me. YMMV.