On Jul 17, 7:00 am, Rob Bochan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 16 July 2007 08:02:44 pm Casey T. Deccio wrote: > > > Does /etc/hosts contain a valid entry for your hostname? > > > Casey >
On Jul 17, 7:00 am, Rob Bochan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 16 July 2007 08:02:44 pm Casey T. Deccio wrote: > > Does /etc/hosts contain a valid entry for your hostname? > > ----- begin hosts ------ > 127.0.0.1 localhost > 127.0.1.1 hostname Leave those as is. then on the client do $>sudo ifconfig to get the ip address of the client; then log into the server and add a line in /etc/hosts with the client's ip address hostname and alias http://www.faqs.org/docs/securing/chap9sec95.html Also helps to check /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow to see if you have blocked yourself somehow, e.g. if you do hosts.deny ALL then nobody gets in without an entry in hosts.allow Lots of documentation available on this as it's a security matter, just google on /etc/hosts and hosts.allow rd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
