connecting via ssh

[Bruce Noblick]

Thanks to all,

It is now working.

I now have a choice.  When I get tired of orca's voice, I can connect from 
my windows box so that I can get tired of its voice too, grin.

Thanks again for all the help.

Enjoy!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry at gotss.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 8:05 AM
Subject: Re: connecting via ssh


> 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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