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Accesing a folder shared by Ubuntu 11.10 laptop by Ubuntu 11.10 PC does not work

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I have a desktop PC and a notebook in the same network. Each of them is running Ubuntu 11.10. I shared a folder on my notebook which I somehow can not access by my PC.

Here is what I did so far:

On the notebook I right clicked on my home folder and went to

Properties -> Share

where I marked Share this folder and Allow others to create and delete files in this folder. It asked me for installing some services. They failed. So I did manually sudo apt-get install samba. Worked fine. Now I went to my PC an opened my home folder. Above in the menu I selected GO->Network. There I pressed CTRL+L and entered the local ip address from my notebook. But somehow it can't find it.

Is there more configuration, that I have to do?

I appreciate every help, thanks!

PS: Sometimes it says

Error: Failed to retrieve share list from server

Please select another viewer and try again.

I refer to this picture in one of the comments below. It is not directly related to the formulation of my initial question but to a solution presented below by @lumbric in the comments.

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answered 1 Year ago sharall · Accepted Answer

CTRL+L in Nautilus (that's the name of Ubuntu's default file browser) was a good start! But you have to use the correct network protcoll which is smb when using Samba. So you have to enter:

smb://127.0.0.1/

(of course replace the IP address)

This might be quite a serious usuability bug in Ubuntu. If you just click on "network" it never finds any computer in your network.

Additional tipps

I'm not sure wether SMB is the best joice for a home network if both machines are running Ubuntu. Samba is primarily used in order share files with windows computers. But I haven't any better suggestions. sFTP and SSH is good but slow. NFS is lacking some important features as far as I remember. FTP might be a joice.

PS: Btw note that STRG is german and english speaking users might not understand that this is the CTRL key... ;)