I've had a home network for many years. I connect to my wife's Winders 7 machine using Samba. Sometimes the connection works easily, and other times it does not. When she had Winders XP I could make a connection from my Ubuntu 10.04 desktop machine to a designated folder on her machine (named Transfer), and leave it mounted. If I needed to put something there I could drag from wherever on my machine to the icon representing that folder on her machine. Something changed when she got a new machine with Winders 7. Now, I can connect from my desktop to hers, but the icon no longer represents the folder I used to connect to, but several layers up. I can leave the connection mounted, but I have to open a Nautilus window and drill down to her Transfer folder. That's annoying, but I can live with it. I just have to double click on that icon to open a Nautilus window and proceed from there.
This morning I opened a connection to her machine, drilled down to her Transfer folder, and transferred some files. I left that Nautilus window open but minimized and went on with other things. This afternoon I had some more things to move to her Transfer folder, so I restored the Nautilus window and tried to copy some files. Something happened to the connection and the copy stalled. I closed that Nautilus window and tried opening a new one. No success. So, I unmounted that connection and opened a new one. There was some delay, including a small window that told me it was working on it, but then it worked fine. A separate problem arose this afternoon when I tried to connect to my laptop, which is also running Ubuntu 10.04. For reasons I don't understand, I can see my desktop machine from my laptop, through Samba, but can't see any directories. Likewise, while I could see my laptop from my desktop machine via Samba, I could not see any directories on the laptop. Of course, in the process of writing this e-mail I went through the steps again. I still can't see my desktop machine from my laptop, but I can see my laptop from my desktop machine, and I can get to a shared directory. Can anyone recommend some reading on this subject so I can whack myself with a suitable clue stick? (Or, feel free to whack me with said stick yourself.) Thanks. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
