sharing files between ubuntu computers

[David Fox]

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Gary Kirkpatrick <pegngary at gmail.com> wrote:
> When I fish://127 etc from the jaunty machine I get the contents of
> the jaunty.  When I fish from the intrepid using 127 I get the
> contents of the intrepid machine.

That won't work, because localhost is only local to whatever machine
you are sitting in front of at the moment.

> both machines have the same name.  whoami gets the s ame results.  At
> one point I was trying to make sure the machines shared the same

Still, you can change that, and add each entry that's on the network
to /etc/hosts, but not doing that shouldn't keep you from using the
numeric IP of the other system. Just don't use 127.0.0.1, use the
xxx.xxx.xxx.151 from xxx.xxx.xxx.100 or vice versa.

When i do stuff from home, I use the public router that's available in
my complex, and it usually works fine. Then I can just do an ssh or
scp or what have you from my laptop to the desktop. I don't usually do
it the other way around, though. It would of course be better if I had
a wireless router hooked up here - at the moment I just have a direct
ethernet connection (wired) from my desktop to the internet.

Oh, and it's nice to trim posts :).



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