I think getting Samba setup is potentially difficult - you don't describe it in enough depth to say what exactly the problem is (my guess - you need to access the machine by using its DNS name or IP address, the "browsing the network neighborhood" doesn't even work all the time on a properly configured Windows network.) However, if its a relatively small amount of traffic between Linux machines, I would be more inclined to use ssh / scp / sftp. It takes a little effort to setup (generate RSA keys, copy the public key to the other machine*, etc.) It is very convenient once its setup. You can also use something like filezilla, winscp, or best of all sshfs. * something like the following works: cat .ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh user@othermachine "cat - >> .ssh/authorized_keys" <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:36 PM, DB <<a href="mailto:Freddog_de@yahoo.co.uk">Freddog_de@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On 09/15/2009 11:56 PM, Steve Searle wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Around 10:34pm on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 (UK time), DB scrawled: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Does anyone have any suggestions how to proceed?? </blockquote> I'm no expert, but this might help move things on. I assume each machine can ping the router, as their Internet connextions work. However, can each machine ping both other machines? Steve </blockquote></div> Hi Steve, Thanks for the suggestion - I'd even forgotten that ping existed! I'll have to build me a Little Reminder Script "when this, then that"!! Strangely, I don't seem to be able to ping the gateway... but after several false starts, I get the following when pinging the desktop from the laptop & the LT from itself: [Dave@Fedora-Toshi ~]$ ping -R -a -c 5 192.168.0.160 PING 192.168.0.160 (192.168.0.160) 56(124) bytes of data. 64 bytes from <a href="http://192.168.0.160" target="_blank">192.168.0.160</a>: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.337 ms RR: 192.168.0.111 192.168.0.160 192.168.0.160 192.168.0.111 64 bytes from <a href="http://192.168.0.160" target="_blank">192.168.0.160</a>: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.322 ms (same route) 64 bytes from <a href="http://192.168.0.160" target="_blank">192.168.0.160</a>: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.317 ms (same route) 64 bytes from <a href="http://192.168.0.160" target="_blank">192.168.0.160</a>: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.330 ms (same route) 64 bytes from <a href="http://192.168.0.160" target="_blank">192.168.0.160</a>: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.334 ms (same route) --- 192.168.0.160 ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4000ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.317/0.328/0.337/0.007 ms [Dave@Fedora-Toshi ~]$ ping -R -a -c 5 192.168.0.111 PING 192.168.0.111 (192.168.0.111) 56(124) bytes of data. 64 bytes from <a href="http://192.168.0.111" target="_blank">192.168.0.111</a>: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.162 ms RR: 192.168.0.111 192.168.0.111 192.168.0.111 192.168.0.111 64 bytes from <a href="http://192.168.0.111" target="_blank">192.168.0.111</a>: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.132 ms (same route) 64 bytes from <a href="http://192.168.0.111" target="_blank">192.168.0.111</a>: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.108 ms (same route) 64 bytes from <a href="http://192.168.0.111" target="_blank">192.168.0.111</a>: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.133 ms (same route) 64 bytes from <a href="http://192.168.0.111" target="_blank">192.168.0.111</a>: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.122 ms (same route) --- 192.168.0.111 ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4015ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.108/0.131/0.162/0.020 ms & Netstat gives the following: [Dave@Fedora-Toshi ~]$ netstat -rn Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 [Dave@Fedora-Toshi ~]$ [Dave@Fedora-Toshi ~]$ netstat -s Ip: 11703 total packets received 0 forwarded 0 incoming packets discarded 11212 incoming packets delivered 10408 requests sent out Icmp: 100 ICMP messages received 20 input ICMP message failed. ICMP input histogram: destination unreachable: 2 echo requests: 28 echo replies: 60 171 ICMP messages sent 0 ICMP messages failed ICMP output histogram: destination unreachable: 9 echo request: 144 echo replies: 18 IcmpMsg: InType0: 60 InType3: 2 InType8: 28 OutType0: 18 OutType3: 9 OutType8: 144 Tcp: 546 active connections openings 2 passive connection openings 22 failed connection attempts 7 connection resets received 0 connections established 9271 segments received 8282 segments send out 18 segments retransmited 0 bad segments received. 94 resets sent Udp: 1839 packets received 2 packets to unknown port received. 0 packet receive errors 1935 packets sent UdpLite: TcpExt: 52 TCP sockets finished time wait in fast timer 422 delayed acks sent 28 packets directly queued to recvmsg prequeue. 11030 packets directly received from prequeue 6212 packets header predicted 9 packets header predicted and directly queued to user 900 acknowledgments not containing data received 489 predicted acknowledgments 1 congestion windows recovered after partial ack 0 TCP data loss events 11 other TCP timeouts 1 DSACKs received 19 connections reset due to unexpected data 4 connections reset due to early user close 1 connections aborted due to timeout IpExt: InMcastPkts: 146 OutMcastPkts: 66 InBcastPkts: 348 OutBcastPkts: 34 InOctets: 9439157 OutOctets: 1123336 InMcastOctets: 23470 OutMcastOctets: 9545 InBcastOctets: 55988 OutBcastOctets: 3112 [Dave@Fedora-Toshi ~]$ I'm not much wiser.....<div><div></div><div class="h5"> -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com" target="_blank">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> Guidelines: <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>