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

[Sean Davidson]

Hi,

You may need an ssh server installed on .0.250.



Sean


Ronald Johns 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.
>
>
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