sharing files between ubuntu computers

[Alexandra Zaharia]

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>    Gary I didn't ask for your root table. Here is from my Hardy
> computer and is easy to see:

No, it was me to ask him about the routing table.


> karl at karl-hardy:~$ sudo ifconfig
> [sudo] password for karl:
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:e0:4d:1f:a2:b4
>          inet addr:192.168.2.2  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>          inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:4dff:fe1f:a2b4/64 Scope:Link
>          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1492  Metric:1
>          RX packets:17415 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:15219 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>          RX bytes:14014346 (13.3 MB)  TX bytes:2162887 (2.0 MB)
>          Interrupt:18 Base address:0x4000
>
> 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:1680 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:1680 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>          RX bytes:84000 (82.0 KB)  TX bytes:84000 (82.0 KB)
>
> karl at karl-hardy:~$ locate sshd
> /etc/pam.d/sshd
> /etc/ssh/sshd_config
> /home/karl/sshd
> /home/karl/sshd~
> /usr/sbin/sshd
> /usr/share/man/man5/sshd_config.5.gz
> /usr/share/man/man8/sshd.8.gz
> karl at karl-hardy:~$
>
>    This proves my Hardy ip address is 192.168.2.2 and that I have ssh
> installed.
>
>    Now my Jaunty laptop has an ip address of 192.168.2.4 and has ssh
> installed as well.
>
> Now I am going to connect to Jaunty from Hardy and it looks like this:
>
>  karl at karl-hardy:~$ sftp 192.168.2.4
> Connecting to 192.168.2.4...
> karl at 192.168.2.4's password:
> sftp> ls
> 8.jpg               Desktop             Documents
> Music
> Pictures            Public              Templates
> Videos
> bin                 cplus               dmesg.log
> email-list.csv
> kernel-data         kgnome2_private     libdvdcss.eml
> log-for-29jan.txt
> log-for-29jan.txt~  lspci810.log        mysqlaccess.log
> profiles.ini
> scp.txt             scp.txt~            wifi
> wifi~
> winestore.data      wireless
> sftp>
>
> Now I will disconnect from Jaunty:
>
>    If you do not get what I get there is something wrong with either or
> both your computers. Compare them to this and try to fix them.
>

What you're showing here is a standard configuration of two hosts
behind the same router. This works, of course.

His problem is that his two boxes are connected to two routers, and,
*somehow*, one of them can communicate with the other but the second
one cannot.