Re: local network problem
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
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?
Thank you very much for your answer Andrew,
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.
they are identical
And is samba actually running on the laptop? If
you don't start it, it won't share.
yes, the samba daemon is running.
Out of curiousity, since they're both debian machines, why not use
nfs?
because I wanted to give samba a try. On the other side, in order to use
nfs do I need to set one the machines as a nfs server and the other one
as a nfs client? I read that a nfs server is quite involved to set up...
Regards
Marcelo
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Marcelo Chiapparini
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