[Techtalk] WebMin Refused 2

[Andrew]

On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 10:43:12 -0500
Vera Childs <vera at dc-vc.net> wrote:

	Vera & All,

Thank you. Your info has provided me with some insight that is lacking
in "How to's" and manuals. Not that they are unhelpful but, your text is
right on target at the right time. Which makes a big difference. 
	In this situation I was loading webmin on my local box in an effort to
familiarize myself to it workings. I have three other old server boxes I
have had to move monitors and Vid cards around, to to update. 

	Andrew 

> I suspect that your problem is that the machine wasn't in your
> /etc/hosts file. This is a remote machine you're trying to get to,
> right? Here's what should already be in your /etc/hosts file:
> 
> 127.0.0.1		localhost.localdomain	localhost
> 
> (order is unimportant for the last two items)
> 
> And what you should add is:
> 
> IP-address-of-other-machine	name-of-other-machine
> 
> There may even be a way to do this in webmin... Aha! Go to
> Hardware->Network Configuration->Host Addresses. You can add new ones
> there. This needs to be done on the machine you're using to get to the
> webmin of the other machine. If you don't have webmin installed on
> that machine, you can edit /etc/hosts as above. This is all assuming
> that the machine you're connecting from is running Linux. Other OS's
> (Mac/Windoze) would have different instructions, of course.
> 
> 
> -Vera
>