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) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
