configuring linux 5.4
 

i have installed redhat linux 5.4 on vm ware virtual machine on win 7
and have created a user account which i want to acces by secure shell installed on win 7.what settings should be done this on linux and how to get host name

There shouldn't be any extra configuration required unless you disabled ssh access on the firewall page during installation. Log on to the vm's console and run '/sbin/ifconfig eth0', this will give you the current IP address of the vm. By default the network interface will be configured to use dhcp to obtain an address, being a virtual machine it is unlikely that the address will change due to the dhcp lease expiring so you should be safe enough adding an entry to c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.

eg.

192.168.23.200 mylinuxvm

Then you can use the IP address or 'mylinuxvm' as the destination to ssh to.

I won't go into the details for setting up a static IP address yet, see how you go

cheers

thankyou it worked