sharing files between ubuntu computers

[Colin Law]

2009/5/30 Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>:
> Can Ubuntu provide what I think is called Internet Connection Sharing
> on Windows?  If so then he could possibly wire the two PCs together
> with a cross over ethernet cable and get the internet connection on
> the wireless router on just one of them.  The Internet Connection
> Sharing then allows the other to get its internet through the first
> one.

I have just realised I am talking rubbish.  He could wire the two pcs
together to allow them to talk to each other and use the wireless on
each (as he is at the moment) to get the internet access.  Or am I
still talking rubbish?

Colin

>
> Fixing the routing issue would be better though if it proves possible.
>
> Colin
>
> 2009/5/30 Alexandra Zaharia <f0rg3r at gmail.com>:
>> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>    I missed where he said he did have 2 routers. If he has 2 routers
>>> and computer 1 is on router 1 and computer 2 is on router 2 then the
>>> whole thing is a bag of worms. Get rid of one of the routers :-)
>>
>> Wait... actually, I'm not very sure. All I could make out was that he
>> said a few emails back that:
>>
>>>> I am in a short term rental in Morelia, Mexico.  The Landlord supplies wireless router connections.  There are 3 such connections.
>>
>> I don't really understand if he has 2 router or just 1 with a weird
>> routing table.
>>
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