Network problems

[Tom H]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Bill Stanley <bstanle at wowway.com> wrote:
> On 12/23/2010 12:21 PM, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> I don't see any samba ports in your output above. Are you sure that
>> you have samba running? How did you set up the shares?
>>
>> For nfs, you must have it installed. To export a directory, you have
>> to edit "/etc/exports".
>
> I think you misunderstand my problem. If I understand samba correctly,
> it is for connection a windows machine to a Linux machine. I can't get
> two Linux machines (both running Unbuntu) to communicate. If I am
> right, samba is not needed but nfs is needed.

Samba can connect any two boxes that have an smb client and an smb
server whether Windows, Linux, BSD, OS X, Solaris, ...

ubuntu-desktop depends on smbclient, so any Ubuntu desktop box is/can
be a samba client in a default Ubuntu desktop install.

When you're pinging or using samba are you using hostnames or ip addresses?

On your presumed samba server, do you have samba installed and running?