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

[Nevyn]

On 9/26/07, Ronald Johns <ronaldj at orcon.net.nz> wrote:
> > 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.

It's not file sharing that's the problem. The ssh daemon isn't running
on the laptop (sshd). This means that you're other computer, when
trying to connect to port 22, doesn't find anything there. Chances
are, being a rescue environment, sshd isn't there.