Re: SSH through wireless router
"Eduardo M KALINOWSKI" <ekalin@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Haines Brown <brownh@hartford-hwp.com> wrote:
>> I have a laptop (sidux on Thinkpad X61s) that connects via wi-fi to
>> the wireless router connected to my desktop machine (etch) via CAT5,
>> which has the name "teufel".
>>
>> I can connect to the router, which I name "router", by:
>>
>> $ ssh router
>>
>> but then I'm stuck with the password. I've tried the password I use to
>> administer the router without luck.
>>
>> I actually don't want to connect to the router, but to the desktop using
>> the router. The name and address of that machine on the LAN is
>> listed in the SSH client's /etc/hosts file, and so I tried $ ssh
>> teufel. However, I can't even connect: Connection is closed by remote host
>>
>> Can't I access all machines connected to the router and running a SSH
>> server merely by using those machines' names for the ssh command?
> If I undertood correctly, both machines are connected to the same
> router (it doesn't really matter if it's wireless or via cable). So
> you should, with no additional setup (except perhaps adding an entry
> in /etc/hosts, which you already have), be able to connect from one
> machine to another.
Yes, my desktop connects to the wireless router by CAT5, while the
laptop connects to the router by wifi. So I should simply be able to do
$ ssh teufel and be taken to the user's home directory on teufel, and
when prompted for PW, supply teufel user's PW. Right?
> Can you ping teufel? Can you ping its IP address directly?
Yes, I can ping both "teufel" and its IP address.
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Haines Brown, KB1GRM
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