sharing files between ubuntu computers

[Gary Kirkpatrick]

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Alexandra Zaharia <f0rg3r at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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Here's the result from the jaunty.


eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0d:56:e7:ea:01
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:11

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0c:f1:33:9f:58
          inet addr:192.168.2.100  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::20c:f1ff:fe33:9f58/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:6671 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:5163 errors:0 dropped:1 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:7124206 (7.1 MB)  TX bytes:923865 (923.8 KB)
          Interrupt:5 Base address:0xe000 Memory:fafef000-fafeffff

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:323 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:323 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:17364 (17.3 KB)  TX bytes:17364 (17.3 KB)


So  under lo I get 127.0.0.1 for both computers.  Seems like there's
something odd about that.

gary
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