sharing files between ubuntu computers

Gary Kirkpatrick pegngary at gmail.com
Sat May 30 15:23:05 UTC 2009


On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 4:09 AM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
> > I have posted this question before and no one seems to want to mess with
> > it.  I don't understand why not.  Should not be that difficult a problem
> to
> > resolve.
> >
> > I have 2 ubuntu computers.  Sharing files between them ought to be the
> > simplest thing to do.  Places, network yields only 'windows network'
> which
> > can not be mounted.  One computer has jaunty the other still has intrepid
> > (have not had time to upgrade).
> >
> > I have enable sharing via shares-admin-network.  The only option is to
> share
> > through windows network/SMB
> >
> > I  have selected some files to share through Nautilus.
> >
> > ssh is installed.
> >
> > Places/networking shows "window network" which upon activation  shows
> > 'unable to mount location.'
> >
> > Before I installed jaunty these two computers shared files.  I had no
> > trouble getting this to happen.
> >
> > Repeated searches for help on google, and ubuntu have left me befuddled.
> > It's probably something simple I am over-loooking.
> >
> > I appreciate any  assistance.
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > gary
> >
> >
>     I think you have some problems with networking. Do This: In a
> terminal type:
>
> $sudo ifconfig
>
> and write down the ip address for this computer. Then do the other the
> same way.
>
>    Now in either computer in a terminal type: $ ping (the other
> computers ip number). If this fails you have a serious networking
> problem. If it works then do this:
>
> $ sftp (the other computers ip number)
>
> and you should be able to put anything you want from one to the other
> computer.
>
>
> Karl
>
>
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Thanks for the info.  I can ping from the jaunty to the hardy but not the
other way around.  sftp does not produce any results from either computer.

thanks

gary
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