[Macpartners] A question about remote control of G5

[Kerem B Limon]

You sound a bit confused.

First, I was explicitly looking for the hostnames, IPs in question. It's not
like DNS names and IPs are any secret (you are routinely being port-scanned by
multitudes of malicious people everyday, so revealing the info won't hurt).
E-mail me those in private if you are uncomfortable posting here. Your problem
is almost certainly a networking/DNS issue. I can't comment without specifics.

Second, sshd should be enabled on your Mac to accept remote logins. The easiest
way to do this is to check 'Remote Login' in the System Preferences | Sharing
property sheet. Check also the firewall is allowed to let port 22/tcp in
through (it will do so by default), if enabled.

Mac OS X does not have a registry. That is a Windows concept. There are various
traditional UNIX plaintext and/or XML-based configuration files, some of which
are modified to enable sshd, but unless you're an expert user, you're best off
using the GUI to change them.

-Kerem


Quoting Li Liu <liuli at MIT.EDU>:

> Thank you very much for your reply.
> I am trying to ssh from one office machine under athena. The host I am
> trying to ssh to is the Mac G5.
> 
> The message I typed and got is:
> 
> athena% ssh username at 18.54.*.***
> ssh: connect to host 18.54.*.*** port 22: No route to host
> 
> 18.54.*.*** is the IP address of this Mac G5 machine.
> I guess there should be one command under registry of G5 which I could
> change into receiving SSH.
> Thanks a lot!
> Li
> 
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Kerem B Limon wrote:
> 
> > Well, it would help if you could tell us what you typed after 'ssh'.
> >
> > 'No route to host' may imply many things, among them DNS issues or network
> > (routing) problems of all, in the first place.
> >
> > Where are you/what machine are you trying to ssh from? What is the host you
> are
> > trying to ssh to?
> >
> > -Kerem
> >
> >
> > Quoting Li Liu <liuli at MIT.EDU>:
> >
> > > Dear all,
> > > I am not a member of this group and just heard about it. It is very
> > > helpful to have this kind of groups to help new mac users to play
> around.
> > > Here is my question:
> > > I have a G5 desktop now and need to remotely use it through SSH.
> > > Suposingly G5 is under Unix so that remote using SSH should be possible.
> > > However, I got "No route to host" while I typed: "ssh ****" under unix
> > > based interface. I need to remotely run fortran programs.
> > > If you have any idea of this problem, please email me. Thanks a lot.
> > > Best,
> > > Li
> > >
> > >
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> > Kerem B. Limon
> > kerem.limon at mit.edu /e-mail
> >
> >
> 
> 


Kerem B. Limon
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