sharing files between ubuntu computers

[Alexandra Zaharia]

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Gary Kirkpatrick <pegngary at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I can sftp from the Jaunty to the intrepid but not the other way
> around.  To do this i had to disable firestarter as I did not have the
> jaunty's ip address in firestarter.   I tried to add it but
> firestarter is not allowing me to do so for some reason; seemed to
> allow it but then does not list it but this might be an unrelated
> problema.
>
> I tried konqueror from intrepid and it did not work.  I have not
> installed konqueror on jaunty yet.
>
> Thoughts?

Wait, let's see you've got connectivity between the two computers without
using sftp.

>From what you're saying, I gather you can access the Intrepid machine from
the Jaunty one but not the other way around (you can't access the Jaunty
machine from the Intrepid one).

Let's assume the two hosts are called "jaunty" and "intrepid".

Go to the "jaunty" machine and type in a terminal:

ifconfig

If "jaunty" is connected to your LAN via an ethernet cable, look in the eth0
(or eth1 etc.) section for an address resembling 192.168.xx.yy. That's its
IP. If it's connected through WiFi, look in the section labelled "wlan0" (or
wlan1 etc.).

Now that you've got its IP, go back to the "intrepid" machine and open a
terminal and type

ping 192.168.xx.yy

where 192.168.xx.yy is jaunty's IP.

You should be getting something like the example below (that's from my
configuration):

ping 192.168.1.100
PING 192.168.1.100 (192.168.1.100) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.1.100: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.14 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.100: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=1.09 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.100: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=14.1 ms
^C
--- 192.168.1.100 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2003ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.090/5.458/14.139/6.138 ms

I am not familiar with firestarter, but I figure the problem arises from a
faulty configuration there. Just make sure you don't deny any traffic
between the machines in your LAN.
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