sharing files between ubuntu computers

[Jonathan Hudson]

On Sat, 30 May 2009 15:46:35 -0500, Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:

>Ping 192.168.2.1 from intrepid box produces no response.
>
>On 5/30/09, Alexandra Zaharia <f0rg3r at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Gary Kirkpatrick <pegngary at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>> Route N on the jaunty reads:
>>>>
>>>> ~$ route -n
>>>> Kernel IP routing table
>>>> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
>>>> Iface
>>>> 192.168.2.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     2      0        0
>>>> eth1
>>>> 169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     1000   0        0
>>>> eth1
>>>> 0.0.0.0         192.168.2.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0
>>>> eth1
>>
>>> on the intrepid:
>>>
>>>
>>> Kernel IP routing table
>>> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
>>> Iface
>>> 192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     2      0        0
>>> eth1
>>> 169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     1000   0        0
>>> eth1
>>> 0.0.0.0         192.168.1.254   0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0
>>> eth1
>>>
>>
>> I don't see where the problem is, frankly. I mean why does it work
>> from jaunty -> intrepid but not from intrepid -> jaunty.
>>

As you have two different subnets, 192.168.1.0/24 and 192.168.2.0/24
how are you routing between them? Please describe the routing table on
the router as well.