[SWLUG] Network setup for Fedora Core 5

[p.g.richardson at phantomjinx.co.uk]

> [snip]
>> ftp could be a pain to setup, needs servers and things running.
>>
>> much easier to use 'scp' its part of the standard ssh package.
>>
>> if you wanted to say copy a directory and all its contents from the
>> local machine to a remote one, do:
>>
>> scp -r mydir  user at remotehost:destdir/
>>
>> or you can play with rsync (which also uses ssh)
>>
>> rsync -arv mydir user at remotehost:destdir
>
> Thanks Justin,
>
> I just tried scp:
>
> : scp app/Pim/pim.txt mark at percival:/home/mark
> ssh: percival: Name or service not known
> lost connection
>
> My desktop's hostname is pye my laptop's hostname is percival. I'm user
> mark on both. I don't want a permanent link since the laptop will often
> be away from the desktop.
>
> Yes I know I'm clueless... I'm a programmer and never was any good as
> sysadmin stuff:-(
>

Mark,

Have you placed percival and its IP Address in your /etc/hosts file on
your laptop?

You need that, otherwise pye will not know who percival is.

Regards

PGR (a.k.a. phantomjinx)


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