[ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

[John MM]

On 04/03/11 09:18, Simon Greenwood wrote:
> The samba directory should be owned by root. Everything else looks 
> correct from your ls output. Your shared folders should be owned by you.
>
> In Windows, a machine's user has defacto admin rights. The question 
> that Vista and Windows 7 asks about making changes to your system when 
> you install something is essentially granting you permission to do 
> something to the system.
>
> Ubuntu is a Linux-derived operating system that takes its permissions 
> structure from Unix. On an Ubuntu desktop you are a non-privileged 
> user who has the right to make changes to the system using sudo. When 
> you need to make changes, you are asked to enter your password, which 
> gives you temporary administrator privileges. System level files are 
> owned by the administrator, and generally, you shouldn't have to do 
> anything with them unless you have a problem like this. If you look at 
> them using the file browser, they will appear to be locked. Broadly 
> speaking, the only place that files shouldn't be locked is in your 
> home directory.
>
> Now, to test connectivity between your machines.  Make sure that they 
> are connected to your router either by cable or wireless. You will 
> need to know their names. On one machine, open Terminal and type 
> 'ping' and the name of the other machine. You might have to enter 
> <machinename>.local. You should see output like this:
>
> PING machine.local (192.168.0.2) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from machine.local (192.168.0.2): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.117 ms
> 64 bytes from machine.local (192.168.0.2): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.139 ms
> 64 bytes from machine.local (192.168.0.2): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.131 ms
> 64 bytes from machine.local (192.168.0.2): icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.114 ms
>
> If you don't see that, then you have sort out your connectivity.
>
> I need to get some work done now and I really would suggest that if 
> you need to understand the differences between Windows and Ubuntu, 
> that you read this: 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwitchingToUbuntu/FromWindows and 
> the pages linked to it. Again, I'm not trying to fob you off, but I 
> don't think that this list is the place to talk about the basics. In 
> my opinion Ubuntu is the best desktop distribution of Linux but it's 
> not completely a drop-in replacement yet, and you do need to 
> understand a few concepts.
>
> Simon


Hi, thank you, I really appreciate the help. Its really frustrating. I 
tried the ping, I can ping this computer from my netbook  but I cant 
ping from this computer to my netbook. I am convinced its a lock 
somewhere on this computer.

As far as the link goes, that is something that I have been working from 
already. Thank you though for helping.