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Re: File Sharing Problem - Thanks



On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 08:28:23PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Tue,24.Mar.09, 12:17:29, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > I wish to share or move files between two Debian systems on a LAN.  Each
> > can successfully ping the other using their system names, dragon and
> > phoenix.
> 
> Good
>  
> > I have gotten lost in the NFS-Root-Client-Mini-HOWTO which seems far
> > more elaborate than my needs.  From either system I only want to access
> > the files in the directory /data on the other system.
> > 
> > I have tried to copy the file I need with command on dragon:
> > 
> > dragon:~# spc phoenix:/data/filename /data
> > ssh: connection to host phoenix port 22: no route to host
> >
> > Notes: I have edited hosts.allow on both systems to allow each other.
> > There are no entries in hosts.deny.  I have checked the output of
> > netstat -pln and find that neither is listening on port 22 so I tried 
> > 
> > dragon:~# spc -P 22 phoenix:/data/filename /data
> > ssh: connection to host phoenix port 25: no route to host
> 
> Is sshd running? Did you make changes to /etc/ssh/sshd_config? Can you 
> 'ssh localhost'?
> 
The systems had no sshd!  Foolishly I assumed that since the systems had
ssh they also had sshd running in the background.  A little searching
revealed openssh-server needed to be installed.  When this was done scp
worked with no further setup.

Many thanks for pointing out my oversight.

Tom
> -- 
> If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
> (Albert Einstein)



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