Cannot access public on core over wireless

[purps]

Hi all, I'm trying to work out a way to sync my car PC (running Karmic) with the music on my core. Getting thwarted though...

When the PC is wired into the switch directly, I can access the public folder through Network >> Windows Network >> Workgroup in the usual fashion, but the public folder (or anything else) is not visible when using the wireless. Any reason for this? Cheers.

[wierdbeard65]

Obvious(?) questions.

1) Is your wireless AP on the internal network?
2) Have you got a network connection (for example, can you ping anythig?)
3) Is your network in range? (You aren't connecting to, for example, next door's network are you?)

[purps]

Thanks for the reply. Always best to start with the obvious ones mate.

3 yes's.

However, in spite of not being able to access the public folder through the bog-standard network folder, I have now been able to do my rsync using the "purps@192.168.80.1:your/path/here" business. I also discovered that if you want to actually browse the folders on the core, then "connect to server" in the main menu in ubuntu is the way to go - simply type in "192.168.80.1" at the top, give it a name if you wish, and away you go.

[purps]

For anybody else trying to do this, the brackets (and spaces for that matter) in the public home folder symlink to my secondary hard drive caused me a lot of problems when trying to the path into the rsync command. I got round the spaces by putting the symlink name inside quotations, and I got around the brackets problem by adding the -s option to the rsync command (not sure WHY this worked, but it did).

[wierdbeard65]

Always best to start with the obvious ones mate.

It's the obvious ones that usually catch us out 

Particularly the old "connecting to the wrong network" this has been a real issue on a number of commercial sites I've been involved in!

Anyway, glad you managed to get it working...