On 2/24/06, L. V. Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/23/06, Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I transfer files and maintain systems on the lan all the time with scp > > and ssh which are configured to avoid re-typing passwords. There's a > > good discussion here: > > > > Password-less logins with OpenSSH > > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/152 > > > > I prefer to use passwords but only need to enter one password to enable > > all the others, as described above. > Thanks Ralph, Mike, Anthony, Magnus, Philippe and Felipe. > I think I was not clear in my statements. Two machines A and B are in > lan coonected to DHCP server which gives random ip addresses on each > boot. They are not constantly on. Each machine has only one user. Both > ids are different. I am not very good at networking. I used > passwordless ssh when both machines had same user with same uid and > machines had static ip. Here users are different and IP allocated is > different in every boot. Configuring dhcp server is not under the > user control. > In such a case, how to find what IP is allocated to other machine so > that ssh can use that host. > Purpose is simply to transfer a file to other pc so that other user > can use it may be mp3 file or docs etc. > -- > L.V.Gandhi > http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/ > linux user No.205042 >
What device handles the dhcp leases of the 2 pc's ? It would be wise to install bind (or some less robust DNS server in your case) and have the machines do a dynamic dns updates to this DNS server each time the are rebooted. http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/343 Later on you would access the machine's not by IP but by dns name. In the same way you access debian.org rather then 192.25.206.10 -- Cheers, Maxim Vexler (hq4ever). Do u GNU ?
