Re: home network problem - router is smarter than me

[tyler <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca>]

"Stackpole, Chris" <CStackpole@barbnet.com> writes:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> 
>> When apache is configured to listen to all addresses, I can browse
>> webpages on the desktop from the laptop by entering the IP address
>> (192.168.2.11), but not the name (etch.mynetwork). On the desktop I
> can
>> ssh to the desktop (ie., ssh to itself) with ssh etch.mynetwork, but I
>> can't connect from the laptop to the desktop:
>> 
>> tyler-> ssh etch.mynetwork
>> ssh: etch.mynetwork: Name or service not known
>> tyler-> ssh 192.168.2.11
>> ssh: connect to host 192.168.2.11 port 22: Connection refused
>> 
>
> Do you have an ssh server running on your laptop? The connection refused
> tells me that either you don't or it is running on a different port.

I'm trying to ssh into the desktop though. I have been able to ssh from
my laptop to my university computer lab before, with only the ssh client
on the laptop. I know there's a ssh server on the desktop, as I just
installed openssh-server last night. On the desktop it is running on
port 22.

Thanks,

Tyler