--- "John D. Tiedeman" <jdtiede@sstar.com> wrote:
> Joey Kelly wrote:
>
> ><snip>
> >
> >
> >>The suggestion of using scp (of which I hadn't
> heard before) sounds good
> >>since both Fedora machines already have it. How do
> I find the name I
> >>might have assigned to one computer, and assign
> one to the other? I
> >>think I did it at setup before, but forgot the
> name since I've never
> >>needed it. I assigned numbers to both for router
> purposes.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >The file you want is /etc/hosts. You'll have to
> edit this file on each
> >machine, adding the hostname and IP of the other
> machines on your LAN. Then
> >you can ping, ssh to, etc., any of the machines by
> hostname, instead of IP
> >address.
> >
> >
> I entered hostnames in /etc/hosts and can now ping
> by name, but when I
> try to transfer a file (hostname1:/pathtosourcefile
> hostname2/pathtodestinationfile) I am asked for a
> host password on one
> machine. Trying it from the other, I get "connect to
> host hostname port
> 22: No route to host." sshd is selected as a service
> and running on both.
>
Your subnet mask is probably wrong on the second host.
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