I eventually got it to work by changing the sharing settings on the Asus
Eee PC, to not require a password, then it worked. (I had set up a
username of user on the Ubuntu PC, as that is the name used on the Asus,
with the same password, although I do not know why it did not work.)
Thanks for al
Paul Roach wrote:
> To be honest, the quickest way to access networked data between linux
> boxes is to ensure ssh is enabled, and to open nautilus - in the
> [snip]
but at least with smb/cifs, you're not encrypting/decrypting your
traffic as you would with ssh/sftp, so if you're confident your
un
On 11/07/09 22:55, David King wrote:
> And when I try to access the Ubuntu network share via Network in
> Nautilus, which I should be able to do as it is the PC I am accessing it
> from, I get an error saying "Unable to mount location. Failed to
> retrieve share list from server."
>
> So how do I
To be honest, the quickest way to access networked data between linux
boxes is to ensure ssh is enabled, and to open nautilus - in the
address bar type
ssh://usern...@ipaddress
You'll then be asked to log on with credentials on the remote machine
(assuming you don't use key-based authentication).
I do have another problem, with the network.
I have put my Asus EeePC running Xandros on the network, and I want to
connect to it from my Ubuntu PC and vice versa.
I have installed samba on Ubuntu, plus gadmin-samba, and Firestarter.
I have tried to set up the file sharing so that the Asus can a
