home network through router

[Douglas Pollard]

Tab Gilbert wrote:
>
>     >
>     Assumming Ubuntu Desktop (mine is 9.04)
>
>     If you want simple file sharing between the two systems then right
>     click
>     on the folders you want to share and click "Sharing Options..."  This
>     will prompt you to install 2 packages.  Enter the admin password and
>     restart your session.  Do this on both systems and you should see the
>     systems under Places->Network and look for the PC name.
>
>     If you are looking for sftp via ssh then let us know, it to is fairly
>     simple.
>
>     If you want to share via nfs, this too can be done fairly easily.
>
>
> Thank you for the simple information.  I have been using Giver and did 
> not realize how easy it was to set up simple file sharing between two 
> computers.  What I have have wanted to do is set up something like "go 
> to my pc" but the lack of a static IP address on my DSL connection has 
> always confused me when I attempt any solution.  This is a nice little 
> baby step of learning.  Did not mean to change the topic but I wanted 
> to thank you for also providing some easy to understand instructions.
>
> tab
I must be missing something here.    I did right click on folders to be 
shared but found no " sharing options" ??
                                                                         
                                             Doug