Hi All Please disregard following help request.
Issue disappeared when I realized that problem was caused by jarring box with my foot causing HD drive not to be fully connected. Box is test setup with sliding drawers in it so HD may be easily setting on floor by my desk in position where foot may accidentally hit HD drawer. Which is apparently what happened. Thanks for all previous help. Frank On Sunday 27 February 2005 15:46, SOTL wrote: > Hi All > > Help !!!!!!!!!!!!! > > Sorry for screaming but I do feel a bit better now. > > I added 1 computer to the network so now there are a total of 3 as follows: > > MSI with name of Reality_Check @ 192.168.2.7 with Mandrake 10.1 > HP with name Meatloaf_Night @ 192.168.2.9 with Mandrake 9.2 > IBM with name Big_Nate @ 192.168.2.2 with Mandrake 10.1 > > I do not have the ability to install 10.1 on the HP with out replacing the > CD reader with a DVD reader. > > From any one box I can ping either [or both at the same time] of the other > two boxes. For example from the IBM box I can ping MSI by using 192.168.2.7 > and/or HP by using 192.168.2.9. > > I can not ping either of the other boxes by using names. For example I can > not ping MSI or HP by using the names Reality_Check or Meatloaf_Night nor > can I ping the IBM box from either MSI or HP using Big_Nate. > > So, numbers work; names do not work. > > I was able to access the MSI box from both the HP box and the IBM box by > using the following: > fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/to/directory > or fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I was not able to access any box by > fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/to/directory > > I was not able to access the IBM box from either the HP box or the MSI box > using > fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/to/directory > or > fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/to/directory > > I was not able to access the HP box from either the IBM box or the MSI box > using > fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/to/directory > or > fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/to/directory > > So, one function apparently correctly two did not function as expected. > > I checked packages for the IBM and HP against the MSI. > > The MSI and IBM have the following packages installed: > kdeutils-kdessh > openssh > openssh-askpass > openssh-askpass-gnome > openssh-client > openssh-server > scanssh > sshd-monitor > > The HP package are somewhat different and due to inadequate notes I may not > have the content exactly correct so we will skip that at this time. > > First Question: > > Are there other packages that are required to ssh into a box that I do not > have listed above? > > Second Question: > > If there are no additional packages required why does one work [of sorts] > and one not? > > That above [of sorts] is important as after completing I left work went > home did laundry and returned to work to attempt to make the other two > boxes work. > > Firing up all 3 computers the 2 which I was not able to access by fish came > up normal and functioned normal. > > The MSi box which I was able to access by fish came up with video up to 3/4 > way through KDE boot at which time it lost video and maybe key and mouse > too as they did not appear to be functioning either. > > I shut the box down by turning power off [bad practice] since I appear to > have no control of box. > > I repeated the above several times with identical results. > > I attempted to access box by fish and was able to do so. > > I placed Mandrake 10.1 disk in DVD drive and did an upgrade. > > Booting box after upgrade I still got blank screen and most possible no > mouse and no keyboard. > > Third Question: > > How does one go about establishing why, how issue develops and how does one > repair? > > Thanks > Frank > > > /etc/hosts is a system file and can only be edited by root user. If you > > are in KDE hit Alt+F2 and enter 'kdesu konqueror' to get a root copy of > > konqueror file manager. > > > > If your IP address does keep changing, then it may be more convenient to > > use samba instead of fish. > > Samba allows you to join a Windows network, and you can pass files > > between both Windows and Linux computers. > > > > > Since I would imagine part of my ping issue is that hostname is not set > > > and user name may not be [not sure if user name is same as login user > > > or if this is different user name] lets tackle username and host name > > > first. How do I set them up? > > > > The user name is the login name. > > > > > > derek > > > > > > Thanks for the help > > > Frank > > > > HTH > > derek
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