Re: Wireless networks

On 12/01/12 23:32, Diego Bello wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Phil<phil_lor-bzGI/[email protected]>  wrote:
>> Thank you for reading this.
>>
>> Continuing on with my new Internet connection I now have two laptops, both
>> running Linux, wirelessly connected to the Internet via a Technicolor (real
>> brand name) modem.
>>
>> I had expected that both laptops would have access to each other's files but
>> that is not the case, so far. I have experimented with smb4k but with
>> limited success.
>>
>> Some time ago I had connected to someone's Windows wireless network and was
>> able to access their desktop computer with smb4k without any effort at all.
>>
>> Am I using the correct tool or is there more to this than I had expected?
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Phil
>
> Maybe there is a firewall blocking access to smb in your Linux
> machines. Try disabling shorewall and iptables and connect again with
> smb.

Thanks for your replies Diego, Jim and Cokey.

I have progress a little and can now access the USB port on the modem 
with "smb://techcicolor/media" using Firefox. I had expected to be able 
to use the same method to access files on each laptop but sadly not.

The IP address for the laptops are 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.3 and I can ping 
from one to the other.

So where do I go to from here? The laptops can see each other but so far 
I'm unable see any files.

-- 
Regards,
Phil