[AuckLUG] GDM problems ,but wait ,theres more :-)

[Ronald Johns]

> More or less the /etc is not mounted or missing...   He previously
> mentioned that his root password is not working which more or less the
> /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow doesn't exists.  Also, the X conf files are not
> present.  If it was a hardware error, you should least be able to run it
> in the most primitive setup and an EE error in the logs will pop-up.
>
> Post your syslog dmesg, boot.log, xorg.log's.  Check your fstab and mtab
> and tell us your fs schema when you're in single user mode...
>
> To do this:
>
> on grub hit E
> go to kernel line and add number 1 at the very end of the line
> hit b
> hit b *i think this is the last one*
>
> by the way do you see the fancy boot splash for FC ?
>
Hi all,
       great progress !!!.Working on the sound principal that there are
 n ways to skin a cat, I have cobbled together a ethernet crossover cable
and got one way communication between two beasts.

Now this is the first time I have ever done anything with ethernet or
networking etc, all Black Art as far as I have been concerned , so I was
amazed when I got some results ,go to whoa in a couple of hours.

What I have got is the infamous Laptop running on a rescue shell on which
I can see my desktop machine.

I entered #ssh gaspode at 192.168.0.1 on the laptop and hay ho ... up came my
desktop and I can find and read all my txt files etc.

However , when I go the other way...
[root at localhost gaspode]# ssh steve at 192.168.0.250
ssh: connect to host 192.168.0.250 port 22: Connection refused

I think I need to be able to set the laptop to share files ; so can anyone
tell me how to do this with command line instructions on the laptop ?

Nearly there folks :-)
Regards
Ron.