On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 7:33 AM, James Dugger
<james.dugger@gmail.com> wrote:
Mike,
A few questions -
which box is client and which is host (for purposes of ssh)?
1- I'm embarrassed to say, but I don't know. I think they both are client. rsync and ssh work from the laptop to the desktop but I can do neither the other way.
2- As for ping: it will ping from the desktop to the laptop but not the other way. Is this odd? In my mind it shouldn;t ping from the desktop to the laptop! seeing as what I said in 1.
3- Static IP addresses? I know I set them up as static when I first set it up and with each new install they didn't change so I never bothered making sure they were static again. It is bad of me but i just assumed everything was cool.
4- known_hosts file? There is a known_hosts file on the laptop and after it was deleted it recreated itself. Not so on the desktop. I deleted it and it didn't recreate itself.
5- id_rsa and id_rsa.pub in ~/.ssh? Neither of those files exist.
6- authorized_keys? On neither of the boxes do I see the file authorized_keys. So I suppose that means neither is a host.
On which box is the rsync program running?
Are you using static IP addresses for both boxes?
On the client box do you have a known_hosts file in ~/.ssh
If you see known_hosts file type cat known_hosts while in the directory ~/.ssh do you see the line id-rsa= with a bunch of numbers and letter pairs?
On client do you see id_rsa and id_rsa.pub in ~/.ssh?
On the host box do you see a file named authorized_keys in ~/.ssh?
Also you mentioned networking problems with the address that you are using in for Openssh can you ping the box? try pinging the host box from client using ping -c4 <host ip address> check for packet loss. If you are losing packets and/or the host cannot be reached than you have a network problem other than just ssh and you will need to solve this first.
well... I'll tell you... I deleted known_hosts on the computer that will not rsync or ssh and ran the reset command to find no gain in the situation. I the tried to ssh from the laptop and after logging in I was presented with a message that I needed to reboot. I did but there was no improvement in the situation.
James
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