I am lost about how to get my Local Area Network working again. It used to work before Unity, and it might still work, but I don't know how to access it.
I am working with a wired network. 2 dual boot laptops, windowsXP and ubuntu, and 2 single boot windowsXP stand alone systems. The laptops can access ethernet from either operating system and the standalones from XP.
My current effort is to see out to another LAN member from this laptop, named laptop a HP Presario 2100 running Ubuntu. ifconfig on laptop gives the following:
-Laptop:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0b:cd:32:39:42
inet addr:192.168.0.4 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20b:cdff:fe32:3942/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:815 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:835 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:676701 (676.7 KB) TX bytes:117043 (117.0 KB)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xc000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2080 (2.0 KB) TX bytes:2080 (2.0 KB)
It can ping the other laptop (AcerX) and it shows up as samba 3.5.11 from AcerX running windowsXP. laptop's drives show as c: e: and f: which are the xp designations on laptop.
Can somebody help me see what I am missing? Maybe if I knew what I was doing, this might work.
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