networking with unmanaged switch

[timothreus]

I am trying to network some pis with a couple of windows 7 laptops. Because I am not using a router, I did not set the gateway. Windows seems happy with this but the pis do not.

I set the relevant lines of /etc/network/interfaces to

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iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.1
network 255.255.255.0

The windows 7 laptop can ping the pi but the pi cannot ping the windows 7 machine. Can anyone help?

[Thijxx]

It's possible that the Windows machines block the Ping. Firewall settings or some Norton/McAffee Protection Suite.

Can the Windows machines ping the Windows machines?

[timothreus]

Thank you for the reply. I have now just connected the two pis. They can ping each other so all is good so far. Is there a simple way to get them to share files with each other (without connecting one of them to an external hard drive and setting it up as a file server)?

[Spid]

Thank you for the reply. I have now just connected the two pis. They can ping each other so all is good so far. Is there a simple way to get them to share files with each other (without connecting one of them to an external hard drive and setting it up as a file server)?

NFS server / client
or
FTP

[ghans]

SFTP/SSH/SCP should all come preinstalled.


ghans

[timothreus]

Thanks again for the suggestions. Both pis now have proftpd installed.

I have checked the status with

sudo service proftpd status

In windows (sorry, it's what I know!) you could then do something like

ftp 192.168.0.2

What is the equivalent in linux? I just want to do a simple example like transferring a text file form one desktop to the other.

[RaTTuS]

use scp or winscp [from windows]

ftp is ftp on linux [sudo apt-get install ftp ]
but I'd not use ftp these days

[ghans]

It's the same.
Might not come pre-installed though.

ghans

[timothreus]

Thanks people. Installed ftp and it works as expected.