On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 09:56:40AM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hello! > > I am running etch at home in two machines: a desktop and a laptop. Both > are connected to the web trough a switch witch is connected to a modem. > Both machines work fine regarding the internet. I want to > connect both in a lan configuration. For this purpose I installed samba > in both machines, and created a folder in each machine which can be > shared trough the network. Now the desktop see itself in the network but > doesn't see the laptop. The laptop see the desktop but doesn't see > itself. It appears that the laptop is invisible in the network. What > could be wrong with the laptop configuration? It's been a *long* time since I've done samba, so my first step would be to compare the two samba configs to make sure there are appropriately similar. And is samba actually running on the laptop? If you don't start it, it won't share. Out of curiousity, since they're both debian machines, why not use nfs? A
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