I have multiple systems in my home. The Linux boxes all currently run Ubuntu 5.10. The LAN also has several boxes running windows (mostly XP) and a TiVo unit. My Linksys router and wireless AP is the DHCP server and gateway to the cable modem. I currenly have no static IPs assigned within the LAN. BTW, this is all hobby stuff. The other day I decided to experiment with using ssh mostly for fun, though it could be handy to not have to flit between chairs just to do something on another box. I DID get this to work ... sort of ... but not very elegantly. IOW, I have to do ssh username@nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn rather than using the name of the desired host. Given that IPs can change, I still need to flit to another chair to get the IP. Note that I do get the proper host name in the title of the terminal from which I did the ssh connection. I suspect I need to do something to provide name resolution via a DNS server, Hosts list or something (the issue again being DHCP assigned IPs). Also, the ssh material I read seemed to indicate that ssh supported running X based GUI programs remotely and when I tried that I got a message that it was unable to open the display. This could again be a name resolution issue but I do not know. Late last night I read that Ubuntu defaults X "Forwarding" to OFF for ssh so that could be it as well. Hence 3 questions for now: 1 - How best to not have to use IPs for the ssh functions? 2 - Is X "Forwarding" being off the primary/sole cause for the remote GUI failure? 3 - Where might I find CURRENT and fairly simple HOWTOs for ssh which cover this situation (I have read many outdated docs and which assume you are in a corporate environment with an internal name server)? Sorry for being so wordy, but newbs are that way. :) -- Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. - James M. Barrie --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss