sharing files between ubuntu computers

[Karl F. Larsen]

Alexandra Zaharia wrote:
> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>>    Gary I didn't ask for your root table. Here is from my Hardy
>> computer and is easy to see:
>>     
>
> No, it was me to ask him about the routing table.
>
>
>   
>> karl at karl-hardy:~$ sudo ifconfig
>> [sudo] password for karl:
>> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:e0:4d:1f:a2:b4
>>          inet addr:192.168.2.2  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>>          inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:4dff:fe1f:a2b4/64 Scope:Link
>>          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1492  Metric:1
>>          RX packets:17415 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>>          TX packets:15219 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>>          RX bytes:14014346 (13.3 MB)  TX bytes:2162887 (2.0 MB)
>>          Interrupt:18 Base address:0x4000
>>
>> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>>          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>>          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>>          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>>          RX packets:1680 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>>          TX packets:1680 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>>          RX bytes:84000 (82.0 KB)  TX bytes:84000 (82.0 KB)
>>
>> karl at karl-hardy:~$ locate sshd
>> /etc/pam.d/sshd
>> /etc/ssh/sshd_config
>> /home/karl/sshd
>> /home/karl/sshd~
>> /usr/sbin/sshd
>> /usr/share/man/man5/sshd_config.5.gz
>> /usr/share/man/man8/sshd.8.gz
>> karl at karl-hardy:~$
>>
>>    This proves my Hardy ip address is 192.168.2.2 and that I have ssh
>> installed.
>>
>>    Now my Jaunty laptop has an ip address of 192.168.2.4 and has ssh
>> installed as well.
>>
>> Now I am going to connect to Jaunty from Hardy and it looks like this:
>>
>>  karl at karl-hardy:~$ sftp 192.168.2.4
>> Connecting to 192.168.2.4...
>> karl at 192.168.2.4's password:
>> sftp> ls
>> 8.jpg               Desktop             Documents
>> Music
>> Pictures            Public              Templates
>> Videos
>> bin                 cplus               dmesg.log
>> email-list.csv
>> kernel-data         kgnome2_private     libdvdcss.eml
>> log-for-29jan.txt
>> log-for-29jan.txt~  lspci810.log        mysqlaccess.log
>> profiles.ini
>> scp.txt             scp.txt~            wifi
>> wifi~
>> winestore.data      wireless
>> sftp>
>>
>> Now I will disconnect from Jaunty:
>>
>>    If you do not get what I get there is something wrong with either or
>> both your computers. Compare them to this and try to fix them.
>>
>>     
>
> What you're showing here is a standard configuration of two hosts
> behind the same router. This works, of course.
>
> His problem is that his two boxes are connected to two routers, and,
> *somehow*, one of them can communicate with the other but the second
> one cannot.
>
>   
    I missed where he said he did have 2 routers. If he has 2 routers 
and computer 1 is on router 1 and computer 2 is on router 2 then the 
whole thing is a bag of worms. Get rid of one of the routers :-)

Karl


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