home network through router

[Karl F. Larsen]

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 did the things I said I would. I found this compact 
explanation with Google:

If Your Ubuntu System has set to use DHCP, you will want to 
change it to a static IP address here is simple tip

open the /etc/network/interfaces file.

sudo vi /etc/network/interfaces

If you are using DHCP for your primary network card which is 
usually eth0, you will see the following lines

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

As you can see, it’s using DHCP right now. We are going to 
change dhcp to static, and then there are a number of options 
that should add and here is the example and you can change 
these settings according to your network settings.

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.100
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.1.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
gateway 192.168.1.1

Restart the neworking service using the following command

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

	What I did would was first $ sudo ifconfig and found what it 
was now, and then set it up to get it the same as a static ip 
number. It worked.


Karl


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