Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 11:37:32PM -0400, Kevin Stokes wrote:
> Once again I find myself helpless. As unreliable and as frustrating as
> Windows is, in Linux it seems like you can't do anything without asking for
> help.
>
> I wanted to remotely login from a Windows machine to my linux machine. So
> I wanted to install telnetd. Everyone said, 'shame on you, telnet is
> simply awful. You should be chained to the wall and whipped for wanting to
> use telnet! Use 'ssh' instead.'
>
<snip>
I would encourage you to give putty a try. It is an ssh client
that will fit on a floppy. Easy to use. You can nab it at -
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
grab "putty.exe"
Check and make sure you have sshd running on your Debian machine -
deb:~$ ps ax | grep sshd
260 ? S 0:08 /usr/sbin/sshd
If it is you should be able to just fire up putty and point it to your
Debian machine.
> And he drowns. You start searching archives and HOWTO's. Each thing you
> find leads you in 10 different directions; 10 more places to look for
> answers. Only each of those ten leads simply bring up 10 more questions and
> strange things you never heard of. It seems like there is a infinite sea
> of little config files, and nested /etc directories, and devices and weird
> little two-letter commands. And for each of these, there are man pages
> with 20 options, and completely obscure text which makes no sense unless you
> already know everything.
>
<snip>
> You can tell this from the tone of most newbie posts. They are
> embarrassed to have to ask these questions. They (read me) have a tough
> time asking a question which uses terminology correctly, or even coming up a
> question that makes sense.
>
<snip>
Linux is hard to learn. There is no getting around it. There is no
reason for anyone to be embarrassed to ask questions here, if they have
made a genuine effort to solve the problem on their own first. Don't
expect to get everything working over-night. Just keep plugging away,
one thing at a time and you will get there. Relax and have some fun
solving problems:)
kent
--
From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted
First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke
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