'Personal File Sharing' not working as expected

John John at johnsdesign.net
Tue Oct 2 05:13:15 UTC 2007


Rogue wrote:
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> Hi All,
>
> I was toying around with the 'Personal File Sharing' option (on Fedora
> 7) and am running into some issues. The following is my setup
>
> - ------------
> | Wireless |      /------------ Laptop 1
> |          | ----<
> | Routed   |      \------------ Laptop 2
> - ------------
>
>
> 1. On Laptop1, I go to "Personal File Sharing" and enable the sharing
> (with no password) option.
> 2. On Laptop2, I go to Places->Network.
> 3. I am able to see the shared folder (of laptop1)
> 4. I click on this shared folder to access it, but nothing happens!
>
> Am I missing something here, or is this how it is supposed to work?
> (Both the systems have the latest updates as of yesterday)
>
> Any pointers on where to look for errors appreciated.
>
> thanks,
> Rogue
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I have a FC6 and a Win2k box wired together- I have full access to Win 
from FC, but not the other way around; I'm using the PFS too.




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