Re: Wifi systens -

[Samuel Sieb]

On 10/4/19 2:35 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote:

On 10/02/19 12:59, Samuel Sieb wrote:
I have setup wifi in a school with currently around 15 access points 
and there is no problem roaming around.  They are all consumer routers 
reflashed with openwrt.  They used to be all TP-Link, but now I'm 
starting to switch to Ubiquiti.  The whole school has both 2.4 and 
5GHz available on the same SSID and different SSIDs for different groups. 

.
I wonder if the Ubiquitia/p's are a better choice than the ASUS RTN66 
routers I have? The one I was planning on using for this purpose failed 
when I tried to reset it, at the moment it's a "brick." it was 
advertised as factory refurbished, had a 90 day warranty according to 
the label. I forget when I bought it but it has had several years of use 
and they get pretty warm. Change anything and problems pop up ... Anyway 
I will have to get something else and will have to make a choice.


Any sugestion appreciated.


The Ubiquiti ones are nice.  A couple of cautions though.  By default 
you need to use their software to configure them, I think they are 
designed for large installations with central management.  If you do 
want to use openwrt (which I recommend), you have to ssh in to them to 
do the flashing.  They also only have one ethernet port (unless you get 
the more expensive one that has two).  They are definitely intended as 
access points, not routers.


I have used TP-Link routers for many years and have been generally happy 
with them.  Unfortunately the newer ones are generally not supported by 
openwrt yet.  That said, the not so new ones are still good and some 
have 802.11ac support as well.

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Re: Wifi systens -

[Bob Goodwin]

On 10/02/19 12:59, Samuel Sieb wrote:
I have setup wifi in a school with currently around 15 access points 
and there is no problem roaming around.  They are all consumer routers 
reflashed with openwrt.  They used to be all TP-Link, but now I'm 
starting to switch to Ubiquiti.  The whole school has both 2.4 and 
5GHz available on the same SSID and different SSIDs for different groups. 

.
I wonder if the Ubiquitia/p's are a better choice than the ASUS RTN66 
routers I have? The one I was planning on using for this purpose failed 
when I tried to reset it, at the moment it's a "brick." it was 
advertised as factory refurbished, had a 90 day warranty according to 
the label. I forget when I bought it but it has had several years of use 
and they get pretty warm. Change anything and problems pop up ... Anyway 
I will have to get something else and will have to make a choice.


Any sugestion appreciated.

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Re: open ssh

[Samuel Sieb]

On 10/4/19 6:35 AM, George N. White III wrote:
On Fri, 4 Oct 2019 at 06:41, Angelo Moreschini 
mailto:mrangelo.fed...@gmail.com>> wrote:




currently I perform operations between different computers in my
local network using open SSH; however, when I do this, I always use
the computer's IP number to reference the host. (ex: sudo ssh
angelo_dev@10.0.0.15 )

I'm wondering without yet finding an answer how to do the same thing
using (instead of the IP address) the name of the computer ..
Do I have to Installase BIND? And then what else is needed? ...


Have you tried Multicast DNS 
?    See mDNS on Fedora 
Linux 


This is what I was just going to suggest.  You need to set on each 
computer a unique hostname with "hostnamectl" and make sure that avahi 
is running.  On the computer you're connecting from, make sure you have 
"nss-mdns" installed (I don't know if it is by default).  Then you can 
use ".local" to connect.  If you don't set a hostname, I 
think the default is "linux", so you end up with linux.local, 
linux-2.local, etc.

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Re: graphical environment menus doesn't work

[stan via users]

On Fri, 4 Oct 2019 12:13:40 +0300
Angelo Moreschini  wrote:

> For transport reasons I had disassembled and re-installed on a
> different case, my computer (with windows 10 and fedora 30).
> 
> The technician has successfully performed the reassembly operation,
> however, on booting Windows 10 the computer works correctly, while
> booting via fedora the procedure allows you to log in (with a
> previously registered user name) but after that, the graphical menu
> environment does not appear .
> 
> I can use still fedora in text mode (by Cntrl Alt F 1 -F3), however I
> cannot activate the graphical menu environment.
> 
> 
> How to activate the disappeared graphic environment?
> 
> 
> some advice ?

I don't know how to activate it in wayland, but if you run the
following commands in your home directory from a virtual console
(e.g. Ctrl-Alt-F1, they will start gnome in X.

XCLIENTS=/home/$USER/.Xclients
echo '#! /bin/bash' > $XCLIENTS
echo ' ' >> $XCLIENTS
chmod +x $XCLIENTS
echo 'GSESSION="$(type -p gnome-session)"' >> $XCLIENTS
echo 'exec $GSESSION' >> $XCLIENTS
startx
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Re: open ssh

[Fred Smith]

On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 09:15:06AM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Oct 2019 12:40:58 +0300
> Angelo Moreschini wrote:
> 
> > Do I have to Installase BIND? And then what else is needed? ...
> 
> My router can run a DNS name server, you might want to check
> if yours has that feature. Otherwise running bind or dnsmasq
> somewhere on the local network would be the way to go.

I set up DNS/Bind9 and NTP on a raspberry pi somewhat over a  year ago.
cheap, doesn't tie up a bigger machine someone has on desktop (like, e.g.,
me) and uses minimal electricity.


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   But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: 
 While we were still sinners, 
  Christ died for us.
--- Romans 5:8 (niv) --
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Re: open ssh

[George N. White III]

On Fri, 4 Oct 2019 at 06:41, Angelo Moreschini 
wrote:

>
>
> currently I perform operations between different computers in my local
> network using open SSH; however, when I do this, I always use the
> computer's IP number to reference the host. (ex: sudo ssh
> angelo_dev@10.0.0.15)
>
> I'm wondering without yet finding an answer how to do the same thing using
> (instead of the IP address) the name of the computer ..
> Do I have to Installase BIND? And then what else is needed? ...
>

Have you tried Multicast DNS ?
  See mDNS on Fedora Linux


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Re: open ssh

[Tom Horsley]

On Fri, 4 Oct 2019 12:40:58 +0300
Angelo Moreschini wrote:

> Do I have to Installase BIND? And then what else is needed? ...

My router can run a DNS name server, you might want to check
if yours has that feature. Otherwise running bind or dnsmasq
somewhere on the local network would be the way to go.
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Re: Wifi systens -

[George N. White III]

On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 12:59, Bob Goodwin  wrote:

> On 10/01/19 19:04, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> >
> > If you have your access points all configured with the same SSID and
> > password, there is no difference with a mesh system other than better
> > speed.  Even with mesh, your device still has to switch access points
> > when the current one is going out of range.  Just make sure that you
> > are using them as access points and not routers.  No DHCP, no NAT.
> > Use the LAN port, not the WAN port.
> > 
> .
> That appears to fit my situation, I was considering a second one of my
> ASUS RTN66 routers as an access point downstairs. Where my daughter
> chose to set up her operating position seems to suffer a problem with
> interference between the incident and reflected signals from any router
> I have tried here more or less above her. I can use an iPad, whatever a
> few feet away but moving a small amount at her spot causes the signal to
> drop.
>
>
Multipath issues are common, and would be more severe if the house has
big expanses of metal (siding, roof, or nearby outbuildings).

If your daughter can use an ethernet cable at her operationg position you
could use a WiFi to ethernet box.  These typically have better antennae
than an ipad or laptop, and the ethernet cable allows you to separate the
workstation from the antenna so each can be in the ideal location.

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Re: open ssh

[Frederic Muller]

On 10/4/19 4:40 PM, Angelo Moreschini wrote:
>
>
> currently I perform operations between different computers in my local
> network using open SSH; however, when I do this, I always use the
> computer's IP number to reference the host. (ex: sudo ssh
> angelo_dev@10.0.0.15 )
>
> I'm wondering without yet finding an answer how to do the same thing
> using (instead of the IP address) the name of the computer ..
> Do I have to Installase BIND? And then what else is needed? ...
>
> thanks for every suggestion
>
> Angelo
>
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Hi!

A quick way to fix that would be to set up a config file under .ssh to
list username, machine IP and eventually SSH keys and then add a
nickname for that machine.

I have that in mine:

Host machine_nickname
    Hostname 192.168.0.1
    User fred_onfedora
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/nickname_rsa
    PubkeyAuthentication yes


And then for a machine where I use password (didn't manage to make keys
work yet and tired of typing the password I use a python scrypt which I
probably found on stackexchange:

!/usr/bin/python
   

from ConfigParser import ConfigParser
import pexpect

def main():
    url = "fred_onfedora@192.168.0.2"
    user, host = url.split('@', 1)

    cfg_file = '/home/fred/bin/ssh.cfg'
    cfg = ConfigParser()
    cfg.read(cfg_file)
    passwd = cfg.get(user, host)

    child = pexpect.spawn('ssh -p 54 {0}'.format(url))
    child.expect('password:')
    child.sendline(passwd)
    child.interact()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

then as you can guess I have a ssh.cfg file set to 600 containing this:

[fred_onfedora]
192.168.0.1 = mypasswordhasnospace

Both work for me.

Hope this helps you.

Fred
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Re: open ssh

[GianPiero Puccioni]

On 04/10/2019 11:40, Angelo Moreschini wrote:



currently I perform operations between different computers in my local network using 
open SSH; however, when I do this, I always use the computer's IP number to reference 
the host. (ex: sudo ssh angelo_dev@10.0.0.15 )

I'm wondering without yet finding an answer how to do the same thing using 
(instead of the IP address) the name of the computer ..
Do I have to Installase BIND? And then what else is needed? ...

thanks for every suggestion

Angelo



The simplest way is to put a line in /etc/hosts with


10.0.0.15compname


G
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open ssh

[Angelo Moreschini]

currently I perform operations between different computers in my local
network using open SSH; however, when I do this, I always use the
computer's IP number to reference the host. (ex: sudo ssh
angelo_dev@10.0.0.15)

I'm wondering without yet finding an answer how to do the same thing using
(instead of the IP address) the name of the computer ..
Do I have to Installase BIND? And then what else is needed? ...

thanks for every suggestion

Angelo
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graphical environment menus doesn't work

[Angelo Moreschini]

For transport reasons I had disassembled and re-installed on a different
case, my computer (with windows 10 and fedora 30).

The technician has successfully performed the reassembly operation,
however, on booting Windows 10 the computer works correctly, while booting
via fedora the procedure allows you to log in (with a previously registered
user name) but after that, the graphical menu environment does not appear .

I can use still fedora in text mode (by Cntrl Alt F 1 -F3), however I
cannot activate the graphical menu environment.


How to activate the disappeared graphic environment?


some advice ?


Angelo
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