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My friend and me are connected via LAN router, and we both have Ubuntu 12.04. There is a problem with network. My friend can see my computer on network, but I can't see his computer. I can ping him and connect to phpmyadmin (he has PHP server installed) but I can't access files on his computer? What seem to be a problem?

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  • Have you installed the samba package on both computers? Then reboot both computers and try again.
    – Savvas Radevic
    Oct 10, 2012 at 19:01
  • We did that and nothing has changed.
    – Sasha
    Oct 10, 2012 at 19:02
  • install package nbtscan and execute this command (it will try and discover connected computers): nbtscan $(hostname -I | cut -d ' ' -f 1)/24
    – Savvas Radevic
    Oct 10, 2012 at 19:38
  • Ok, I did that and it is working (program had found my friends computer ), but when I go to browse network I still can't see my friends computer.
    – Sasha
    Oct 10, 2012 at 19:44

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According to the comments above I would:

  1. check if there's a firewall of some sort that blocks connection to specific ports (if the user remembers setting up some blocking application, if it's a default install then the firewall is off by default)

  2. boot from a live cd/usb and see if the problem persists.

  3. try this: install the ssh package on both PCs, reboot, and try to connect through ssh:

    ssh remote-user@IP

(where you substitute remote-user with the username on the other computer and the IP address)

If this works, it should ask you for a password and allow you to login.

After installing ssh, you can probably use SFTP to access files on the remote system. Open nautilus, press CTRL+L, it will show the "location bar", where you type: 

sftp://remote-user@IP

It should ask you for a password.

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