I eventually got it to work by changing the sharing settings on the Asus Eee PC, to not require a password, then it worked. (I had set up a username of user on the Ubuntu PC, as that is the name used on the Asus, with the same password, although I do not know why it did not work.)
Thanks for all the suggestions, I will have to look at NFS and SSH - I have heard of these but never learnt them. Sometimes I find it easier just to do things the old way I am used to, i.e. the Windows way. I am not a fan of Windows nor Microsoft, but using it for so long makes some Linux things still seem too alien. I will have to get my best Dalek onto it! David King William Anderson wrote: > Paul Roach wrote: > >> To be honest, the quickest way to access networked data between linux >> boxes is to ensure ssh is enabled, and to open nautilus - in the >> [snip] >> > > but at least with smb/cifs, you're not encrypting/decrypting your > traffic as you would with ssh/sftp, so if you're confident your > underlying network is secure, you get increased throughput. > > -n > > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
