Network problems

[Bill Stanley]

On 12/25/2010 08:46 AM, Tom H wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Bill Stanley<bstanle at wowway.com>  wrote:
>> On 12/23/2010 12:21 PM, Tom H wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't see any samba ports in your output above. Are you sure that
>>> you have samba running? How did you set up the shares?
>>>
>>> For nfs, you must have it installed. To export a directory, you have
>>> to edit "/etc/exports".
>>
>> I think you misunderstand my problem. If I understand samba correctly,
>> it is for connection a windows machine to a Linux machine. I can't get
>> two Linux machines (both running Unbuntu) to communicate. If I am
>> right, samba is not needed but nfs is needed.
>
> Samba can connect any two boxes that have an smb client and an smb
> server whether Windows, Linux, BSD, OS X, Solaris, ...
>
> ubuntu-desktop depends on smbclient, so any Ubuntu desktop box is/can
> be a samba client in a default Ubuntu desktop install.
>
> When you're pinging or using samba are you using hostnames or ip addresses?
>
> On your presumed samba server, do you have samba installed and running?
>


I ping using the ip4 address.  By the way, the host name on one of the 
computers is rather awkward to type in.  When I was installing Unbuntu, 
I wasn't careful and the host name is not good.  It has been a long time 
since I needed to change a host name and forgot the command to use.

To answer your second question...  I am not sure that I have samba 
server software installed.  I do know that I have samba client software 
installed on both computers. Do I need to install separate samba 
software and does it have to be installed on both machines.