connecting to a server

[Linda]

On 01/12/2011 10:50 AM, Bill Stanley wrote:
> This is getting tedious...
>
> Is there any way to get a BIG (4.5 GB) file from my server 
> to the laptop.  I am having problems on the laptop  with 
> connecting to the server where the BIG file is located.  I 
> have other computers on the network that can access the 
> file but not the lapto
>
> I have tried to connect to the server using 
> places/connect.  I choose Windows share and the servers 
> name.  I get back an error message stating
>
> Cannot display location "smb//???"  (note: The servers 
> name is not ???)
>
> The other computers on the network accessing this server 
> so the problem is in the laptop.  I ran apt-get install 
> smbfs to try to connect the other was and use the laptop 
> as a server and thus having the server SEND the file.  
> Still no luck.   The laptop has a new install of 10.10 and 
> smbfs is the only change I have made from a fresh install.
>
>
> PS is there any other way to get the big file to the 
> laptop.  I tried a DVD but this file is to big for even a 
> DVD.  (The largest file you can put on a DVD is 2 GB.  I 
> tried and failed.)  Is there any way to split up the file, 
> write the pieces of the file to disk, read the disks on 
> the laptop and then reconstruct the big file from its 
> pieces.   This would be very laborious and the network 
> route is far better.
>
> Bill Stanley
>
Can the laptop talk with the other computers on the network? 
If it can you could transfer to another computer and then to 
the laptop so you can get the file moved.

Then for solving your samba problems. First of all can you 
ping or ssh between the two computers just to make sure that 
it is a samba problem rather than a connection problem?
Did you set up everything so that hosts file is correct, 
copy your old samba.conf files back on, reset your samba 
passwords?
I usually connect the other direction windows to Linus with 
samba or Linus to Linux with NFS, but last week when I did 
the upgrade to 10.04 LTS I couldn't connect from windows
because the windows host file did not have the right IP 
address for the machine. So if you use static IPs you might 
want to check that you didn't make a type when setting the 
IP for
the laptop and that you really do have all your network 
settings on the laptop set correctly.

   Linda