[Techtalk] I just installed debian etch 4.0

[Gebhard Dettmar]

On Friday 01 February 2008 02:09, Sal Hardy wrote:
> [...]
>
> the Unix box on my laptop is connected to the network with a hard cat5
> wired connection. 
What is this? A LAN-card?

> my laptop has 20GB and I split this in half to install 
> debian in the free allocation. thus, the original windows XP is still
> there.
>
So you have physical access to your debian-notebook - you could login, do a 
cat /etc/hosts
and should see something like

---snip---
127.0.0.1       localhost
xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa   hiwi.rz.hu-berlin.de    debby
---snap---

Then install a putty on the windows-machines and do a 
ssh -l <your_login_name> xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa (which is the IP-adress /etc/hosts 
told you. Domainname also works
same with 'ifconfig' (like ipconfig /all on Windows)
On a linux machine to login to a server you should also do a 'ssh-keygen'  On 
Windows this should do the putty for you, i.e. there must be some 
putty-keygen.exe 

HTH,
Gebhard
p.s. this is basically nothing else than Akkana wrote, but I presume a LAN (no 
DHCP) What is a hard cat5 wired connection?

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