Network problems

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 2:03 AM, Bill Stanley <bstanle at wowway.com> wrote:

(I understand that your problem is:)

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> I can't get two Linux machines (both running Ubuntu) to communicate.

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>  If I am right, samba is not needed but nfs is needed.

I don't think so, if you can ping both machines you can mount remote
folders, no nfs (or Samba) needed.

What I can't understand is how you can check the open ports across the
machines but not ping them?

Lucio

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