help - ping yes, route no

On 2008-10-10, joe finn wrote:
> I installed Ubuntu 8.04 on 2 desktop machines that are on a LAN with my
> Windows XP laptop. Both show the laptop on the network folder. Both can
> reach the internet. (both are running folding@home right now!) But they
> cannot network with each other. I would think that the second
> installation would detect the first but apparently not.
>
> So I went into System> Administration> Network [wired
> connection][properties] and changed to:
> Static IP address
> 192.168.0.2
> 255.255.255.0
> 192.168.0.1
>
> on "joe-desktop1" and
>
> 192.168.0.10
> 255.255.255.0
> 192.168.0.1
>
> on "joe-desktop"
>
> Then I could ping each from the other but nothing more.
>
>
> joe@joe-desktop1:~/f$ route -n
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
> Iface
> 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
> 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 1000 0 0 eth0
> 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
>
> route -n is the same for both machines.
>
> I tried several sudo route add commands but they didn't open up the network.
>
> I'm out of ideas. TIA

You certainly do not need additional routes, as they are on the same
subnet, and able to ping each other. They are, indeed, networked.

Now, the question is: What are you trying to do that you are having
problems with? If you are trying to share files, have you opened file
shares? What protocol are you trying to use? Have you installed nfs
or samba? How are they configured?

Since you have two linux machines and a Windows XP laptop, you'll
probably want samba. Once it is installed, you'll want to configure
it to be on the same "workgroup" as the laptop. Once this is
configured on both linux machines, you should be able to browse
between the machine shares using the "Network" icon, or you can
configure fstab to mount the shares of the other machines.

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I installed Ubuntu 8.04 on 2 desktop machines that are on a LAN with my
Windows XP laptop. Both show the laptop on the network folder. Both can
reach the internet. (both are running folding@home right now!) But they
cannot network with each other. I would think that the second
installation would detect the first but apparently not.

So I went into System> Administration> Network [wired
connection][properties] and changed to:
Static IP address
192.168.0.2
255.255.255.0
192.168.0.1

on "joe-desktop1" and

192.168.0.10
255.255.255.0
192.168.0.1

on "joe-desktop"

Then I could ping each from the other but nothing more.

joe@joe-desktop1:~/f$ route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
Iface
192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 1000 0 0 eth0
0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

route -n is the same for both machines.

I tried several sudo route add commands but they didn't open up the network.

I'm out of ideas. TIA

Joe Finn

joe finn wrote in
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> eth0 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 1000 0

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-460698.html

On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:58:56 -0600, joe finn wrote:

> I installed Ubuntu 8.04 on 2 desktop machines that are on a LAN with my
> Windows XP laptop. Both show the laptop on the network folder. Both can
> reach the internet. (both are running folding@home right now!) But they
> cannot network with each other. I would think that the second
> installation would detect the first but apparently not.
>
> So I went into System> Administration> Network [wired
> connection][properties] and changed to:
> Static IP address
> 192.168.0.2
> 255.255.255.0
> 192.168.0.1
>
> on "joe-desktop1" and
>
> 192.168.0.10
> 255.255.255.0
> 192.168.0.1
>
> on "joe-desktop"
>
> Then I could ping each from the other but nothing more.
>
>
> joe@joe-desktop1:~/f$ route -n
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
> Iface
> 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
> 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 1000 0 0 eth0
> 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
>
> route -n is the same for both machines.
>
> I tried several sudo route add commands but they didn't open up the network.
>
> I'm out of ideas. TIA
>
> Joe Finn

You don't have a routing problem. You just need programs that talk to
each other over your network. You can use samba, nfs, or ssh as some of
the more common ones. I routinely use ssh and sshfs on my home network.
OpenSSH-server is not installed by default in Ubuntu; you have to add it
yourself.

--
MarkA
Keeper of Things Put There Only Just The Night Before
About eight o'clock

MarkA wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:58:56 -0600, joe finn wrote:
> You don't have a routing problem. You just need programs that talk to
> each other over your network. You can use samba, nfs, or ssh as some of
> the more common ones. I routinely use ssh and sshfs on my home network.
> OpenSSH-server is not installed by default in Ubuntu; you have to add it
> yourself.
>

Thanks.

I got it working. I installed ssh and tightVNC. There ought to be a how
too. It took too long to figure out.

Joe Finn

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