sharing files between ubuntu computers

[Karl F. Larsen]

Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
> 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
>   
    Your Internet address is 192.168.2.100

And your plugged into eth1. Not a problem.


>           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
>
>   
    Hi Gary, we all have 127.0.0.1 for the LAN address.

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