Daniel Drummond wrote: > On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 13:34 +0100, John Matthews wrote: > >> mac wrote: >> >>> Daniel Drummond wrote: >>> <snip> >>> >>> >>>> Running samba will not help unless you have shares on your Ubuntu system >>>> that you want to make available to the other computers. Then it >>>> requires Samba configuration. To access files on other computers >>>> usually doesn't need any configuration or samba daemons on a standard >>>> Ubuntu install. >>>> >>>> >>> John >>> What are you actually trying to do: make files on your >>> computer available to other computers on your LAN, so that they have >>> permanent access to them; or merely give your computer access to files >>> that are on other computers on the LAN? >>> >>> >> Hi, I am trying to be able to see my windows pc and files I have on >> there that I have opened to share, plus the Linux machines I have the >> same as well, all on the network. It seems something isnt working for >> networking. >> >> John. >> >> > > Well, you should probably file a bug. Welcome to the world of > pre-release software. To do that follow the instructions on this web > page: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs > > I can tell you for certain though that the method I laid out previously > *does* work, and does give me access to Windows shares on my wife's > laptop, and a drive shared from my router. > > Have you considered that there could be a problem with the other > computers? Windows file-sharing is a complex beast, if you don't > believe it read some of the documentation at www.samba.org. > > If I remember correctly (and it has been years since I used windows > file-sharing on windows), you used to have to ensure that there was one > computer in the network running the master-browser service in order for > you to be able to browse the network through some kind of network > neighbourhood (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Master_Browser). > Have you checked that this is running on one of the windows machines? > It may well be that you Ubuntu 9.04 system was set up to perform this > task, and the configuration was overwritten when you updated to karmic. > > Dan > > > Well, I dont think its the windows problem, my netbook which I havent updated yet, still sees the windows machine, but it doesnt see this machine. The Windows machine I havent worked out how to view the Ubuntu machines yet. I can see into it, but not out, and that is my fault as I dont know how to. I'll also file a bug, as well.
I will check what you have posted about the networking again, to see if I can understand it. John. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
