Hello LQ,

I haven't been here since Fedora 16 was released because I basically haven't had a single problem with it.

My main computer runs it fine, despite several hardware changes, and so I built a second system out of spare parts in the living room. I installed my old Fedora 15 disc and successfully ran preupgrade so now both machines run fc16-x86_64.

But it's inconvenient to have to walk out into the living room and plug a monitoring into the second machine. What's an elegant and lightweight way for me to access this second machine from the main one? I am not familiar with setting up networks on Linux. Both devices are hardwired to the same ADSL router/modem and are on its MAC whitelist.

Can I just use SSH to do this? Can I do it by IP directly so I could potentially access truly remote systems in the future? Ideal for me is a command line solution that allows me to switch to GUI if necessary, but by default displays the remote system's CLI.

I realize a complete answer to this kind of question involves research on the part of the asker. I'm just looking for some pointers in the right direction. Thanks,

For CLI access SSh is infact the best option. You can even run GUI applications through a SSH channel. Other options for GUI access would be VNC and FreeNX.

There are a few options that are available.

ssh -X
vncserver/vncviewer
rdesktop
x11vnc

See which of these would best fit your needs.

Great, thanks for your input.

What's a good tutorial for getting started with SSH? Does it come installed by default? Are the man and info coreutils invocation detailed enough for a layperson?

Thanks again.

It should be ready to go already, I'm pretty sure fedora has the ssh server installed and running by default.

Try running
Swapping user with your username and ip with the remote machine's local IP, and see what happens

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It wasn't quite that simple.

At first I got an error of "no path to host"

Checked the router's settings- all good

Then I got an error message of:
"connection refused"

turns out that sshd has to be restarted on both machines

then the connection was established, but
"read from socket failed: connection reset by peer"

this was solved by the command
issued as root from /etc/ssh/ to regenerate valid keys

since then I've been able to connect. Thanks again.

I can't ssh back in after I tell the remote machine to reboot. I have to go back over to it and restart sshd. Is there a way to have it automatically restart when the computer reboots.

On another note, (I'll start a new thread if necessary) how do I fix the yum repos? I found out the old computer was still using fc.15 and it keeps trying a bunch of non-working mirrors whenever I try to update anything.

You need to add the sshd service to the default run level for your system. Have a look at "chkconfig" and /etc/inittab

Since you are running Fedora 16,

This should start ssh service everytime you start the computer.

Note that Fedora comes out with new versions about every 13 mths(?); you may want to look at Centos (free version of RHEL) as it is supported/updated for a very long time.
https://access.redhat.com/support/po...pdates/errata/