[SWLUG] Network setup for Fedora Core 5

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

> On Thursday 28 September 2006 10:15, Dave Cridland wrote:
>> On Thu Sep 28 10:00:57 2006, Mark Summerfield wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> This command was done on pye, I assume.
>>
>> If the laptop hasn't got a registered hostname, nor a stable IP
>> address, you'll probably run into problems.
>>
>> If percival has a stable IP address, you could use that:
>>
>> scp foo 10.0.0.2:
>>
>> Otherwise, use the laptop to talk to the desktop:
>>
>> scp pye:foo .
>>
>> Note that SSH, and therefore scp, assumes that you mean "mark" by
>> default, and uses paths relative to the home directory.
>
> Neither has a fixed IP address as such, they both use "DHCP" so I think
> they get addresses from the router... However according to the router
> they have addresses 198.168.1.2 and 198.168.1.3. So I tried:
>
> scp TEST.TXT 198.168.1.3:
>
> but it just hung...
>

Have you got a firewall running? It might be the correct IP Address but
the desktop is silently dropping the ssh packets as the firewall has not
been configured to let it through.

PGR