I can't try right now... but I don't know what I would ping anyway. Just the host name of the machine, the name that appears after user@ in a terminal? Or do I ping the IP address I have assigned the machine in System-Administration-Networking? <div>On 12/6/05, Steve Vandegaer <<a href="mailto:steve.vandegaer@gmail.com">steve.vandegaer@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Could you do a ping from 1 machine to the other? <div><div> On 12/6/05, Sean Hammond <<a href="mailto:sean.hammond@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">sean.hammond@gmail.com</a> > wrote: </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div>Situation: I have two computers running Ubuntu Breezy, one a laptop and one a desktop. I have physically connected the two computers via their network cards using a crossover cable. Problem: How do I get these computers to 'see' eachother, so that I can transfer files? There seems to be no obvious way that works. The computers do not see eachother via the Places->Network Servers window and it's not clear how to use Places->Connect to Server to connect from one to the other. I attempted to setup sharing with both NFS and SAMBA using System-Administration->Shared Folders and by following the Samba instructions in the starters guide. I also tried to activate the network interfaces using System-Administration->Networking, and tried giving each machine an IP address to use. All I could get was a dialog asking me for a password to connect to MSHOME when I tried to open Places-Network Servers. This seems to suggest that I had managed to create a network, but I never specified any password. I just don't know what I'm supposed to do. </div>-- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank"> http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>