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Author: Michael Havens
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To: michael, Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: *nix commands on windows
hmmmmmm..... I can ssh from ubuntu to mint but when I try to go from mint
to ubuntu it times out.

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:54 AM, Michael Havens <> wrote:

> 1- subnet-
> Yep.... they're all on the same subnet
> 2- ping-
> mint to ubuntu- success!
> mint to XP- success
> XP to mint- success!
> XP to Ubuntu- Success!
> Ubuntu to Mint- Success!
> Ubuntu to XP- Success!
> Layer 3 is intact.
> 3- telnet
> mint to ubuntu- success!
> mint to XP- success
> XP to mint- success!
> XP to Ubuntu- Success!
> Ubuntu to Mint- Success!
> Ubuntu to XP- Success!
> Layer is intact. I couldn't figure out how to use telnet but it didn't
> error out so I figure it is all good.
> 4a- "start->run-> type "\\192.168.0.x\" and see if you can see shares.
> They are seen.
> 4b- mount -t cifs -o defaults,username=myuser //192.168.0.x/share_name
> /tmp/cifs
> the XP directory is mounts and lista in the ubuntu and mint computers but
> when I go from the mint to ubuntu it refuses to accept my passwd. You
> know.... I have no idea what the password is! I've never been able to
> access the share. I suppose I could set it for Guest access but I don't
> like that idea because what if I'm at starbucks and so,eome there hacks
> into..... what would they have to do to get into my box before they see the
> folders which allow guest access? I suppose it would be better to find out
> why it won't accept my password!
> Anyways: ip addr show is how I picked up the 5.5.8.1/21 . I am guessing
> it has something to do with a VPN because as0t1 has something to do with
> VPN. (I remember playing woth VPN for a day or two)
>
> bmike1@Michaels-PC:~$ ip addr show
> 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
>     link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
>     inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
>     inet6 ::1/128 scope host
>        valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
> 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state
> UP qlen 1000
>     link/ether 00:09:6b:78:ab:f0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>     inet 192.168.0.3/24 brd 192.168.0.255 scope global eth0
>     inet6 fe80::209:6bff:fe78:abf0/64 scope link
>        valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
> 3: as0t1: <POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc
> pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN qlen 200
>     link/none
>     inet 5.5.8.1/21 brd 5.5.15.255 scope global as0t1
> bmike1@Michaels-PC:~$

>
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Michael Butash <>wrote:
>
>> Cygwin won't give you ifconfig or ip tools (didn't years back at least),
>> it'll still be "ipconfig /all"
>>
>> Look at the subnet mask there, should be 255.255.255.0. If they're all
>> on the same switch/router, than they're in the same subnet.
>>
>> Can they ping each other's addresses? layer 3 is good
>> Telnet to each other on port 445 "telnet 192.168.0.x 445" layer 4 is good
>> From windoze, "start->run-> type "\\192.168.0.x\" and see if you can see
>> shares. Try more specifically if you know the share name.
>>
>> If you want to test from linux back install smbfs packages (specifically
>> for cifs) and mount as:
>>
>> mkdir /tmp/cifs
>> mount -t cifs -o defaults,username=myuser //192.168.0.x/share_name
>> /tmp/cifs
>>
>> Layer 5 and up should be good if you can do the last, otherwise figure
>> out where in between the problem lies. Try in both directions too. It's
>> more than likely with samba config, not the network. Though I'm not at all
>> sure what that 5.5.6.1 address was you were looking at...
>>
>> -mb
>>
>>
>>
>> On 03/14/2012 05:10 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>>
>>> well, I figured I would d/l something so if you tell me how to do
>>> something in *nix I wouldn't have to ask you how to do it in windows. So
>>> I googled it and found 'cygwin'. so I install it and the first command I
>>> type in I am DENIED! File not found it says. So what is the best unix
>>> emulator for windows? 'ip addr show' is the command that wasn't found.
>>>
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