<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Lucio M Nicolosi <<a href="mailto:lmnicolosi@gmail.com">lmnicolosi@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;"> <div><div></div><div class="h5">On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Leonard Chatagnier <<a href="mailto:lenc5570@sbcglobal.net">lenc5570@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote: > > > > --- On Sat, 4/4/09, Gary Kirkpatrick <<a href="mailto:pegngary@gmail.com">pegngary@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > >> From: Gary Kirkpatrick <<a href="mailto:pegngary@gmail.com">pegngary@gmail.com</a>> >> Subject: Re: files sharing >> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> >> Date: Saturday, April 4, 2009, 3:53 PM >> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Thorny >> <<a href="mailto:thorntreehome@gmail.com">thorntreehome@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >> >> > On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 09:14:11 -0600, Gary Kirkpatrick >> posted: >> > >> > > I have two laptops each running both windows and >> Intrepid. I need a good >> > > guide to activate file sharing and can't seem >> to find one. The one >> > > computer is running windows vista, the other xp, >> and both have Intrepid. >> > >> > I don't have a clue why you're having trouble > > Big snip >> >> >> Thanks again for the list, but none of them solve my >> problem. >> > No expert here, but have you tried setting up smb.conf or are you just using the default. Either way, you could post your smb.conf and perhaps someone expert in samba can find a problem with it. You do have to specify which files you want to share. I always found smb.conf difficult to setup properly but NoOP help me get it right but he wont be available til Monday. > Have you enabled file sharing in your gnome or kde menus? Also, windows has to have some setup work done also in network interfaces or mounting network drives, something to that effect. I believe you also have to have the same user name setup in both windows and ubuntu for samba to work although some on the list have said no to this but it's the only way I could share. > Have you tried Nautilus or Dolphin in Ubuntu to see if you can mount or connect to server for the files shared on windows. You should be able to do this when everything is setup properly and, of course, both machines must be running-:)) > You originally asked for guides but if you want help to get it working please provide any error output you see and more detail on just what and how you are trying to connect and share files. > This may not help much but may get you started. I suspect the answer you want is found in the guide references given by Thorny but they may not be easy to find. > HTH and post back if you still need help, giving details on what you've done and any error output. > Leonard Chatagnier > <a href="mailto:lenc5570@sbcglobal.net">lenc5570@sbcglobal.net</a> > </div></div>If I understood correctly, you are not using the full potential of Samba. Using Samba is a matter of installing Samba server (samba) and setting up a lean and clean sbm.conf. You will also need at least smbfs, libpam-mount and libpam-smbpass installed. This link provides a nice example of a smb.conf for a simple network. <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=733966" target="_blank">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=733966</a> The one and only graphical tool I use is Samba Server Configuration Tool (system-config-samba). The tool gadmin-samba messed with my config in such a way I had to start it all over again. I'm no expert but use Samba to share files between Ubuntu 8.10 i386 and Windows XP machines. I'm currently testing Jaunty 64 beta and up to now Samba seems to work. No experience however with Vista. -- Lucio M Nicolosi, Eng. - Sao Paulo - Brazil skype: lmnicolosi1 Lat.: 23°34'4.79"S - Long.: 46°39'59.53"W Linux Regist. User #481505 - <a href="http://counter.li.org/" target="_blank">http://counter.li.org/</a></blockquote><div> I've finally unraveled the mystery. Having already transfered files between the xp/ubuntu and vista/ubuntu machine, whereupon I upgraded the former to Intrepid, I assumed the problem was with Intrepid; shame on me, it turned out. I finally decided to check if I could transfer files using XP and Vista. The XP machine could not see the Vista machine, while the Vista could see the XP but not open any folders/transfer to/from the XP. I checked and somehow the two machines did not share a workgroup name anymore, and changed that. Still nothing. Then I checked to see what else vista needed and it needed the network to be set to private vs. public. Somehow that had been changed as well. Now I can transfer files between both machines using either operating system. And here I was blaming Ubuntu when it was innocent all along. However, Intrepid can not see the Vista machine when Firestarter is enabled. On to the next mystery! </div></div>