sharing files between ubuntu computers

[Alexandra Zaharia]

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Gary Kirkpatrick <pegngary at gmail.com> wrote:

Great. In your previous message you said that you get from the
intrepid machine this:

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1a:73:43:7f:ed
          inet addr:192.168.1.151  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
[snip]

Look there, inet addr:192.168.1.151 means that's the intrepid
machine's IP in your LAN.

Now,

> Here's the result from the jaunty.
>
>
> 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
[snip]

Here, it means that jaunty's IP in the LAN is 192.168.2.100.

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

lo is the localhost interface. Any computer has the localhost 127.0.0.1 : )

Now, let's sum up:

intrepid: 192.168.1.151
jaunty: 192.168.2.100

What you need to do in order to be sure you've got connection:

1) from intrepid to jaunty: go to the intrepid machine and type ping
192.168.2.100 in a terminal
2) from jaunty to intrepid: go to the intrepid machine and type ping
192.168.1.151 in a terminal

If one of those deosn't work, then there is a problem; otherwise, it's
just a configuration flinch.