On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 11:37:32PM -0400, Kevin Stokes wrote: > Once again I find myself helpless. As unreliable and as frustrating as > Windows is, in Linux it seems like you can't do anything without asking for > help. > > I wanted to remotely login from a Windows machine to my linux machine. So > I wanted to install telnetd. Everyone said, 'shame on you, telnet is > simply awful. You should be chained to the wall and whipped for wanting to > use telnet! Use 'ssh' instead.' > <snip>
I would encourage you to give putty a try. It is an ssh client that will fit on a floppy. Easy to use. You can nab it at - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html grab "putty.exe" Check and make sure you have sshd running on your Debian machine - deb:~$ ps ax | grep sshd 260 ? S 0:08 /usr/sbin/sshd If it is you should be able to just fire up putty and point it to your Debian machine. > And he drowns. You start searching archives and HOWTO's. Each thing you > find leads you in 10 different directions; 10 more places to look for > answers. Only each of those ten leads simply bring up 10 more questions and > strange things you never heard of. It seems like there is a infinite sea > of little config files, and nested /etc directories, and devices and weird > little two-letter commands. And for each of these, there are man pages > with 20 options, and completely obscure text which makes no sense unless you > already know everything. > <snip> > You can tell this from the tone of most newbie posts. They are > embarrassed to have to ask these questions. They (read me) have a tough > time asking a question which uses terminology correctly, or even coming up a > question that makes sense. > <snip> Linux is hard to learn. There is no getting around it. There is no reason for anyone to be embarrassed to ask questions here, if they have made a genuine effort to solve the problem on their own first. Don't expect to get everything working over-night. Just keep plugging away, one thing at a time and you will get there. Relax and have some fun solving problems:) kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke
