Sharing & Setting IPv4 address

[RealGomer]

Hood take me but I'm beginning to think Windows might be better than Linux. Anyway, I can connect & share my dual-boot PC with no problems under WinXPPro using wired or wireless. (I've another thread going trying to get the wireless-n usb adapter to work.) Two questions so I can get the wired shares to work.

I want to copy beaucoup files from the Win7 PC to the dual-boot PC. When booting into XP, no problems. When booting into Ubuntu 10.04, nothing. I can see the Win7 PC but can't access it. My two questions then are these.

First, is there some switch to enable fire & drive sharing under Lynx as there is under WinXP / 7? (Samba??) Second, how does one set the IPv4 address? Under WinXP it's one address and under Lynx it's another.

Thank you.

Oh, once this puppy is working, it goes to my daughter who wants to learn Ubuntu & Linux.

[neildomo]

Hood take me but I'm beginning to think Windows might be better than Linux. Anyway, I can connect & share my dual-boot PC with no problems under WinXPPro using wired or wireless. (I've another thread going trying to get the wireless-n usb adapter to work.) Two questions so I can get the wired shares to work.

I want to copy beaucoup files from the Win7 PC to the dual-boot PC. When booting into XP, no problems. When booting into Ubuntu 10.04, nothing. I can see the Win7 PC but can't access it. My two questions then are these.

First, is there some switch to enable fire & drive sharing under Lynx as there is under WinXP / 7? (Samba??) Second, how does one set the IPv4 address? Under WinXP it's one address and under Lynx it's another.

Thank you.

Oh, once this puppy is working, it goes to my daughter who wants to learn Ubuntu & Linux.

You are asking a Linux computer to behave like a Windows box; why don't you ask the Windows box to behave like linux? Go get winscp or pscp or ixplorer(?) and put that on your Windows box. Then you can copy your files across the network with no need to share or mount anything. To change your IP address you can edit /etc/network/interfaces and then reboot (in linux there is always another way, but this is an easier way).

Words of Wisdom: linux has a higher learning-curve, so it's not easy, but it's worth learning how it works.