can you point me in the right direction

[todpod]

Here is my story , I had file sharing set up between Ubuntu 9.10 and a windows machine, with the linux box holding the files, this was using samba. Upgraded to 10.04 bad things happened ended up staring over got the linux box up and running with 10.04 lost my file sharing tried installing 10.04 on he windows pc didn't work, got a new used pc to replace the windows pc had a big enough hd to copy alot of the movies to that pc was running 9.10, no file sharing. FF to today after the wife complained, upgraded to 10.04, file sharing works, yeah.

Decided to hook up a computer in our bedroom running 10.04, installed samba &client and nothing, checked to make sure I have the same stuff installed on both client pcs. What am I missing or is there a better way between to linux computers then samba.

 

[Nothinman]

You can definitely use Samba on both Linux boxes if you'd like, but NFS is more native, transparent and might be a little bit faster.

 

[todpod]

Can I run both so I can get the extra box running before I have to take down the the tv computer

 

[JD50]

Yes, you can run both.

 

[joetekubi]

You can start Samba on Linux with a "-v" parameter for extra verbose logging. Then you can see what is really going on. You can load wireshark on the Windows machine to sniff network traffic - notably any samba announcements. Usually it is a case of base username/passwords, or the wrong workgroup configured.
To see windows shares from Linux, you can use smb:\\windows.ip.address.x in Nautilus, and to see Linux shares from XP, you can go to "map a drive" from windows explorer.

 

[todpod]

There isn't any windows machines hooked up at this point. the extra computer see the movie share but when i click it there is nothing there. getting closer but not there yet.

 

[todpod]

Oh snot the one that was working quit, now i am back to square one