Hi, I am still relatively new at Linux, and I am starting a new internship. They know I don't have much experience, but they put me in charge of setting up the new network because they don't know Linux at all yet...fun fun. Now, I am trying to get ssh to work first off. I would imagine that I probably have to add the hostnames and IP addresses to /etc/hosts on the server. This is what the network administrator did at my last internship, and I was never showed how to do this stuff. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks

Hi, to get ssh to work, all you need is an open port 22 on/to the destination machine, and a running ssh server (sshd in my case). Then the command is ssh xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (e.g. : ssh 192.168.1.3)

anything you put into /etc/hosts is only to alias an IP address to a hostname : instead of writing ssh 192.168.1.3 all you write is #ssh xyz (where xyz is the name assigned to 192.168.1.3).

an entry in /etc/hosts looks like :

Serafean

Thanks, I needed to change the alias too anyway. One more question though...right now its set up as shawniecas@hydrogen. So that is what my prompt looks like, but at the top of the Konsole window, it says "shawniecas@localhost:~ - Shell - Konsole" Why does it still say localhost?

Hi,
I think that's because the @localhost part is set on the host machine. Editing hosts.conf has no effect on the output of your shell. Another possibility is that the titlebar doesn't update.

Serafean

Gratulations with new job.

One way to learn the basics of this fast is to do a certification exam. You can e.g. do LPIC-1 as self study and then book an exam. Doesn't cost much. It will give you a focus over a few weeks to read and study commands and other usefull Linux things.

On the specifics, if this is the title bar on top of the Konsole window I would think you are most likely to find configuration for that in a .something file either on your home directory or under /etc. Try searching for Konsole configuration. The promt text itself is configured in .bashrc (or something similar), but I don't think that has an effect on the title bar.