Re: Connect two pcs with crossover cable

[Timothy Yip <aurelz@gmail.com>]

Hi,

You would probably want to do some tests to see if the network really is up first.

- Check by doing ifconfig eth0 on both machines, and make sure they have the given IPs
- Then try pinging both ways and see if you get a return

- Check the lights on the NICs are active
- Make sure SSH server is running by: /etc/init.d/ssh-server status
- When initiating a connection do ssh -vvv 192.168.0.2 for more verbose

Copy and paste the results.

That's all I can think of for now, until more info are provided.


Regards,
Tim

2010/1/22 Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>

Hi: I'm new to this list and to ssh program.

I've connected two pcs with a crossover cable and installed ssh on both but
they don't seem to `see' each other: I edited /etc/network/interfaces on the
first pc as follows:

allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet static
       address 192.168.0.1
       netmask 255.255.255.0


, and in the second pc the same with 192.168.0.2 in place of 192.168.0.1.  The
command `ssh 192.168.0.2' given from the first machine produces no output.  I
want to use rsync with ssh to share data between the two pcs.

I'm stuck, never connected two pcs together but now I need to: help highly
appreciated.

Thanks
Rodolfo


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