sharing files between ubuntu computers

[Gary Kirkpatrick]

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Alexandra Zaharia <f0rg3r at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>


Thanks you for your reply, Alexandria.

I was able to ping from Jaunty to Intrepid but not vice versa.

gary
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