--- On Thu, 10/23/08, Mohan R wrote:
> It seems, Vista don't want to connect with Ubuntu. Here > is what happend, > > My collegue have Dell Inspiron preinstalled with Vista, > Before he bought > his laptop, he used my system. So he wanted to transfer his > files from > my system to his system. This is how we went. > > 1. Bought a crossover-cable and connected two laptops. > 2. Both systems started dhcp request, Ubuntu settled with > creating one > more ethernet interface 'eth0:avahi'. > 3. Vista created a connection called 'unidentified > network'. > 4. I manually configured eth0 using the below command in > ubuntu, > > $ sudo ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2 > $ sudo route add default gw 192.168.1.2 Default gw is needed if and only if packets are going to traverse to/from your "local" network. In your case it is not applicable. > > 5. In vista I went to ipv4 properties and manually added > 192.168.1.4 as > ip address as well as gateway. again same comment as above re: gateway. > 6. At last I tried to ping each other, Vista is able to > ping > 192.168.1.2. But Ubuntu was not able to ping, even > 'destination host > unreachable' message not appeared. But `arp -a` showed > his machine's MAC > address correctly(I'm not able to recreate the > situation, my friend is > in bangalore now, Sorry for not pasting the output). Like others have commented; you need to turn off VISTA's firewall and security settings. You did *not* tell us how you plan to copy the files from your Ubuntu machine to the Vista machine once you got past your networking issues. Assuming you are running sshd in your Ubuntu desktop, I have found winscp to be the most painless solution to copy/sync. files between Linux and Windows desktop (for networked systems). Search for wincsp and install the latest version on the Vista desktop. It is open source and free. As others have suggested, if the data set fits on a USB pendrive then that is another solution. HTH, -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
