Local web server not being recognized

Question

I setup a web server on my LAN specifically so both a PC and a Mac could use HTTP protocol and store and retrieve files. The servername is called UBUNTU. On any PC in the house I can type http://ubuntu/ and the directory listing appears. The Mac can not find it.
If I use the IP address, the server is recognized. The directory listing appears. And, when I use FTP in Terminal I can even get a file upload to work as long as the file is in the same directory I started the FTP. But, this Mickey Mouse will just not work for my application. What I want to do is schedule a daily upload of newly created music from the days work. If the producers did not like this Mac, I would trash it. I am so frustrated!
This is the first time I've used a Mac and so far I find it to be way overrated. I mean, how many computers can not access a web server out of the box? The Safari browser I am using has no trouble accessing the Internet but my "intranet" seems to baffle Safari. I would expect a problem if using SMB were a requirement. It is not - I simply want to use HTTP. How do I need to change the Mac configuration so that it works?

Answer 1

Thanks for all your help.
Oh well, the music producer using the Mac just installed Yummy and immediately did the uploads he wanted to do. Yummy also has a scheduling function so the Mac will be able to use Yummy on the producer's schedule. (I usually use FileZilla and had never heard of Yummy.)
Meanwhile, I was trying to get SMB working from the Mac but was never successful. As I mentioned earlier, I've never had success with Samba on Linux. This time was no exception. In this particular case, the Mac would not accept the username and password. I had specifically done smbpasswd -a username and used the same password and username that I had been using for FTP activity.
However, when I got to the Mac SMB/CIFS screen it demanded 3 things: workgroup, NAME and password. BUT, the name of the Mac box automatically appeared in the NAME field on that screen. If I tried changing that to the username, there was no success at all. So, I went to the Samba box and added the name of the Mac box as a username.
It was at that point that the producer told me he installed Yummy and was successful in uploading the music. I doubt he will let me have any more time on the Mac box for testing. I guess it is just as well since I had previously told him FTP was the way to go and SMB/CIFS was not something he had ever heard.
Thanks for all your help.
Contrary to your opinion, I guess I feel that the most important things that happened in this exercise were, "the sounds about how it should be so easy but just wasn't working". I just hope folks from Apple, Microsoft and the Linux world stumble across these comments occasionally.
The bottom line is that the end user did not care how the job got done. The end user did not care what operating system nor what software technology was used. He just wanted the job done immediately. And, he had recalled a past experience where the Mac could not handle the job without a third-party FTP application.
Here's the future challenge for 3 programmers and 9 computers. Setup 3 rooms each with a PC, Linux, and a Mac box. Put a knowledgeable programmer from each of those separate worlds in each separate room. It's OK to have an Internet connection so they can get documentation. The task is to get scheduled uploads operational between all the boxes in each room without using 3rd-party software. I think a reasonable time would be far less than 10 minutes including verification tests between steps. Some folks might take most of that time just to read http://www.mattvanstone.com/2007/11/automatically-mounting-windows-smb-shares-in -ubuntu-v3/
so, perhaps the programmers' time is better spent on an FTP approach which might be more common setup and terminology among those three box types.
The winner gets his name on the resulting paper and website he creates to document how he made it so easy. The losers must come to his website each day for a year just to see his advertising.