Cheers rob, But what I was really looking for was a way to set up a network between my laptop and my netbook without having to use samba, and cut the XP machine out. Because I know that Linux doesn't need to use samba to create a network between two comps using Ubuntu, I just don't know how to set that up, if you get me?
Like, now I have samba installed, I can see each ubuntu powered laptops Windows shares, but I need to transfer large amounts of data from one to the other (20GiB at once) and I've found that using samba, this doesn't really work well, so I was looking for a way to do this over a Linux network, not a windows one. Liam. 2009/10/30 Rob Beard <r...@esdelle.co.uk> > Liam Wilson wrote: > > Hey, I have 2 computers Running Ubuntu 9.04 (soon to be 9.10) Thing is, > > ones a laptop, and the others a netbook running UNR. They're currently > > connected to a XP server via Samba, But I'd like to set up a Linux > > network between the laptop and the netbook, with the Laptop as the > client. > > > > How would I go about this, as I know nothing of Ubuntu networking. > > > > Many thanks; > > > > Liam > > > Well if you want to be able to access the files from the XP machine I'd > suggest using Samba. What you can do is right click on a folder (for > instance your home folder) and select Sharing Options. You can then > specify what name to give the share, what users can access the share and > if guests are allowed to access the share. You will probably be asked > for your password so Ubuntu can install Samba to enable the file sharing > (if it isn't already installed). > > Then from your other Linux machine try either of the following: > > 1. Click on the Places menu (on the top menu bar) and select Network > which will open a window and hopefully pop up a Windows Network icon. > > 2. Double click on the Windows Network icon and a list of work groups > (or domains) will appear. This might be something like WORKGROUP or > MSHOME. > > 3. Double click on one of these work groups (you may only have one, if > so, just double click on it). > > 4. A list of machines should appear. Double click on the desired machine. > > 5. You should get a list of shares (such as shared drives, shared > folders or shared printers). Double click on what you want to access. > > 6. You may be prompted for a password, if so, enter your username and > password. You can tell the machine to forget the password immediately, > remember it for as long as you're logged on (the current session) or > remember it permanently. > > 7. Access your files :-) > > or you can add the network drives as bookmarks. To do this, try the > following: > > 1. Click on the Places menu (on the top menu bar) and then select > 'Connect to Server...' > > 2. A box should appear asking for some connection details. Change the > Service Type to Windows Share. Enter the name of the machine you want > to connect to in the server name box, the shared folder/drive you want > to connect to in the share box, and your username in the username box. > You can leave the domain box empty. If you want to save the connection, > click the Add a bookmark option and enter a bookmark name. > > 3. Click Connect and then you should be prompted for a password. You > can if you want save the password so the machine remembers it. > > 4. If you chose the option to add a bookmark, if you look under the > Places menu at Bookmarks, you should see the bookmark for the network > connection. If you have a few bookmarks you may see a Bookmarks > sub-menu which if you click on will show all your bookmarks. > > Hopefully this should work, I've just been running back and forth > between my laptop which is running a Jaunty Live CD and my other half's > PC which I'm writing this on so there may be slight errors there, but > hopefully it'll help you figure it out. I'm not sure if the menu > options are different on UNR as I haven't really played with it much, > but hopefully if it is different it won't be that much different. > > Rob > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
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