Re: Wireless networks

Jerry Lapham <rjlapham-vDbLwGUA7lNWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:19:25 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.linux.mandrake.expert
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On Monday, January 16, 2012 11:12:54 PM Phil wrote:

> On 17/01/12 14:04, Jerry Lapham wrote:
> > On Monday, January 16, 2012 08:22:16 PM Phil wrote:
> >> 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.
> > 
> > Is smbd running on the laptops?  That's the samba server.
> 
> Yes, but from my understanding Samba is designed to allow Linux to see
> Windows shared files. What I want to do is have two Linux laptops share
> each others files.

Samba is one of the ways for Linux systems to share.  My Linux desktop shares 
files with my Linux laptop all the time.

	-Jerry
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Jerry Lapham
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