[SOLVED] Access one computer from another in home network

[JerryF]

I hope I get the names right here: jim owns the Gateway and jerry owns the HP right? ....

Yes, you're correct.

I edited the two files as you said and now I can create/move files! Thank you so much for your effort and time.

I'm marking this as solved!

Thank you to all who participated!!!

[rene]

We aren't using netbios.

I know it's not literally NETBIOS any more; used it as interchangable with "Windows networking" or more specifically, that which Windows networking grew from. What is "important" here is that Samba is, essentially, a silly choice for networking two Linux machines. And that I will not comment further.

[JerryF]

We aren't using netbios.

I know it's not literally NETBIOS any more; used it as interchangable with "Windows networking" or more specifically, that which Windows networking grew from. What is "important" here is that Samba is, essentially, a silly choice for networking two Linux machines. And that I will not comment further.

I understand where you're coming from, but setting up NFS wasn't as simple as everyone said it was, plus it didn't end up working for me. I had hoped it would because I did read that NFS was the native way for unix/linux.