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Yes, the same for Vista.

If you can ping one way you should be able to ping the other unless there is a firewall issue. So as you have them turned off thats a little odd.

Yes the netmask...

I stand corrected! :)

Well if your Desktop machine is Ubuntu with SSH server working, my first method will work just fine.

SSH into your Ubuntu machine with Xming setup and running on your Windows machine. Then run a...

Any modem with a serial port should be fine as they use very basic protocols that are all largly the same. (That is if you have a serial port on your PC!)

I have no experiance with USB modems,...

Not sure I follow. Is there a firewall in the way, is that your issue?

Sounds like you have the hard bit working, with only (what should be) the easy bit left.

Can you confirm that you can see the shares on the Vista machine from any other machines on the network? ...

OR if you prefer to use somthing like VNC over SSH, Google for 'SSH port forwarding'. :)

So you are using Windows as a clinet machine to connect to a Ubuntu machine, and you want to see the applications from the Ubuntu machine as though they are running on the Windows machine all via...

By the way, if you have got a root-kit you can't trust anything on that computer anymore. Be carefull about what you backup and transfer over to a new Windows install. Better still get your friend...

Take a look at this:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897445.aspx

Its a free app that runs in windows and looks for traces of root-kits.

Be sure to read the page, not just...

OK this ones of those half helpfull posts. I am not able to look thisup from where I am, but...

Look for whereyou can set the speed and duplex of the network port on the PC. Sometimes you. Change...

Things to try and things to think about:

Can you boot from an older live cd toI compare download speeds?
Have you got another PC there to try?
Did you just download 8.10 and put yourself over an...

Honestly it could be so many things. Are you trying to get to it locally via wi-five per chance? Can you ping the server locally from another machine?

Yes yes, its all here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/259385

So not solved yet, but there is a workaround.

jerrylamos: Its a Dell Dimension 2400 which aparently has an integrated Intel 3D Extreme Graphics chip.

Hi 'meindian523', no, I reverted back to 8.04 so I could carry on working. I will try again to upgrade again to 8.10 with the ideas from 'jerrylamos' but I will miss the eye candy. I guess Ubuntu...

Hi,

Yes I have 8.04 running now and all looks great I can even get compiz working! When I click System > Administration > Hardware Drivers it says 'No propritory direvers in use' on both 8.04 and...

OK, well I think the best thing to do is to replace all the Windows PCs with Ubuntu. There I am done. Out of ideas. Sorry and good luck!

Thing is the names are not dished out by DHCP (usually) so if the names have been set localy it dosn't sound like an Ubuntu problem. Does the Windows error state the name that it rekons is...

Hi, I have had the previous two versions of Ubuntu running on my system with no problems, but when I went to upgrade (clean install) to 8.10 I became unstuck.

Here are my symptoms:

When I boot...

Have you got the tools to find your master browser? I would try rebooting it, or forcing an election. If not reboot the lot! :)

What version of Ubuntu you on? The Network Manager has changed recently I think.

On my install of 8.04 if I click on the Network Manager icon in the system tray and click 'manual...

It seems that the only solution other than getting aditional 'servers' running on the individual broadcast domains would be to modify the existing stack running on the existing servers to use another...

Any chance someone has plugged another machine onto the network and is trying to bypass security? Are you being hacked from the inside?

Does it have this section:

# Uncomment the next line to enable packet forwarding for IPv4
#net.ipv4.ip_forward=1

# Uncomment the next line to enable packet forwarding for IPv6...