connecting via ssh

[Kerry Hoath]

I'd run
apt-get install openssh

and answer yes to the question about installing packages. Usually works for 
me.
Regards, Kerry.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Noblick" <brunobrook at columbus.rr.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 8:44 PM
Subject: Re: connecting via ssh


> Thanks, Tony,
>
> I was able to get the static IP address working.  Thankfully my years of 
> experience on mainframes with front end processors controlling their 
> network came in handy for something, grin, even though it has no other 
> current relevance.
>
> I am using ubuntu which says that it is "debian-derived" or something like 
> that so I thought I would try the aptitude -q command you suggested and it 
> did run and it appeared to be functional.  I got lost in the maze of 
> categories of packages and names of packages and haven't yet found the 
> openssh-server package.  I wasn't sure if that was the best approach with 
> ubuntu either so I wanted to confirm that here before I allowed it to do 
> any updates or downloads.  I didn't have a good recovery plan if things 
> went weird since I don't know linux very well yet.
>
> Thanks for your patience.
>
> Enjoy the day!
> Bruce
>
> .
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tony Baechler" <tony at baechler.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 6:23 AM
> Subject: Re: connecting via ssh
>
>
>> Bruce Noblick wrote:
>>> This may be a very basic question but I haven't figured out how to get 
>>> ssh to connect with my linux box.
>>>
>>>
>> First, I know this is obvious, but are you sure that the openssh server 
>> is installed on your Linux machine?  If using Debian, do "aptitude -q 
>> install openssh-server" before anything else or of course you won't be 
>> able to connect.
>>
>>> I tried to get my ip address but the information I got seemed to be only 
>>> valid for the local machine.  I have a router to which all of my 
>>> computers are connected so I thought my addresses should be on a 
>>> 192.168.1 subnetwork but the only addresses I saw were on a 127.0 
>>> subnetwork.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Is your router using dhcp?  In other words, do you have the dhcp server 
>> in your router turned on?  Also, what does "ifconfig" and 
>> "/etc/network/interfaces" say?  The "ifconfig" command should show you 
>> your address, gateway and netmask.  /etc/network/interfaces has this 
>> information for automatic setup on boot.  By default, you're probably 
>> trying to use dhcp.  The good thing is that you're almost guaranteed that 
>> you'll get a valid ip address assuming your router is working and 
>> provides a dhcp server.  The bad thing is that the address could change 
>> every time, making it difficult to find what address it uses.  For 
>> example, our Linksys router assigns dhcp addresses starting at 
>> 192.168.0.100.  If I connect from different machines with dhcp, my 
>> address might be 192.168.0.103 or anything between 100 and 149.  That's 
>> why static addresses are better, but they require manual setup.  If you 
>> look at /etc/network/interfaces, it probably says something about dhcp. 
>> I suggest reading the interfaces (5) man page or I can send you a sample 
>> of mine. Then it's just a matter of connecting to the static address you 
>> assign, such as 192.168.1.5 or whatever via ssh.
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