Re: file transfer between two debian sarge machines in a lan
On 2/24/06, L. V. Gandhi <lvgandhi@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/23/06, Ralph Katz <ralph.katz@rcn.com> wrote:
> > I transfer files and maintain systems on the lan all the time with scp
> > and ssh which are configured to avoid re-typing passwords. There's a
> > good discussion here:
> >
> > Password-less logins with OpenSSH
> > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/152
> >
> > I prefer to use passwords but only need to enter one password to enable
> > all the others, as described above.
> Thanks Ralph, Mike, Anthony, Magnus, Philippe and Felipe.
> I think I was not clear in my statements. Two machines A and B are in
> lan coonected to DHCP server which gives random ip addresses on each
> boot. They are not constantly on. Each machine has only one user. Both
> ids are different. I am not very good at networking. I used
> passwordless ssh when both machines had same user with same uid and
> machines had static ip. Here users are different and IP allocated is
> different in every boot. Configuring dhcp server is not under the
> user control.
> In such a case, how to find what IP is allocated to other machine so
> that ssh can use that host.
> Purpose is simply to transfer a file to other pc so that other user
> can use it may be mp3 file or docs etc.
> --
> L.V.Gandhi
> http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/
> linux user No.205042
>
What device handles the dhcp leases of the 2 pc's ?
It would be wise to install bind (or some less robust DNS server in
your case) and have the machines do a dynamic dns updates to this DNS
server each time the are rebooted.
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/343
Later on you would access the machine's not by IP but by dns name. In
the same way you access debian.org rather then 192.25.206.10
--
Cheers,
Maxim Vexler (hq4ever).
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