The elder gods, manifesting through jim lawrence, recently decreed: > On Apr 4, 2005 3:22 PM, Andy Green <andy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> jim lawrence wrote: >> >> | Is there a GUI for ssh it is running on the Desktop now >> | For me just to connect to it, and maybe browse it? then copy files to >> | and from ? >> >> If you want this GUI type stuff, you need to install KDE. >> >> | ssh work for this? >> >> ssh itself is mainly used to literally log into a remote machine and get >> a shell. >> >> However it comes with this other program scp, which allows the encrypted >> file transfer action between machines. >> >> So what you can do is >> >> ssh username@hostname >> >> to get a remote shell, where you can use cd, ls -l, and whatever to poke >> around on the remote server to see what is where, and then when you >> identify the file you need to copy, run scp as I described before in a >> second terminal window. >> >> - -Andy >> > ok I get a timeout error > [jim@JimsNotebook ~]$ ssh jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx > ssh: connect to host 192.169.1.50 port 22: Connection timed out > I tried the Pc's name but didn't recognize it Bummer :( > [jim@JimsNotebook ~]$ ssh jim@localhost > ssh: connect to host localhost port 22: Connection refused > [jim@JimsNotebook ~]$ Sounds to me like the openssh daemon is not running on either machine. I don't have my Linux box in front of me, so I can't tell you off the top of my head how to take care of that. Make sure that sshd is installed and running. Could it be a firewall issue? Does the firewall on .50 allow for ssh connections? -- Sláinte, Richard S. Crawford (AIM: Buffalo2K) http://www.mossroot.com http://www.stonegoose.com/catseyeview "We live as though the world were how it should be, to show it what it can be." --"Angel", Season 4 ep. 1
