Per Jessen wrote:
Donald D Henson wrote:
My problem is that I don't know how to do that. I have ssh (OpenSuSE 11.0) working over the Internet so the installation appears to be ok. I've gone to several SSH howto sites but come out more confused than I went in. It seems to me that there should be a simple ssh command to allow me to connect to another machine on my LAN, something like:
ssh -l alice Venus-ws.homeoffice
Am I essentially correct or way off? Any pointers appreciated.
You are entirely correct. I never use the '-l' option, I just do "ssh <user>@
What sort of errors are you seeing?
/Per Jessen, Zürich
No error messages at first. When I enter the command, the cursor goes to the next line and just sits there until time out. Here's the command and result: dhenson@Earth-svr:~/Desktop> ssh dhenson@Venus-ws ssh: connect to host Venus-ws port 22: Connection timed out dhenson@Earth-svr:~/Desktop> -- Don Henson