Re: 2004-06-10 LUG Meeting Notes.

Just in case, a serial terminal setup might be nice also.

On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 22:00, Richard Steffens wrote:
> Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote:
> 
> >   One user brought in his home machine, hoping for some troubleshooting 
> > help.  Alas the fine owner of the establishment would not permit us to 
> > use one of the "heads" [keyboard, monitor & mouse].  Henceforth, perhaps 
> > someone has a flat panel that they wish to tote about?  I certainly 
> > don't own even one, let alone many to allow for toting.
> 
> Perhaps treating the box as headless might solve the problem. Assuming 
> he has an ethernet card installed, if the user could be sure to have an 
> ssh server set up to run on his machine before arriving and set a static 
> IP address (like 192.168.0.1), someone with a laptop with ethernet, a 
> crossover cable, and an SSH client could provide the means to log in to 
> this box.
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