Re: SPAM: Re: 2004-06-10 LUG Meeting Notes.

Scott Burch wrote:
> 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.

All good suggestions, and I think that we should make them to people 
coming to the meetings.   However, if your box is running that well, you 
could probably arrange remote access.

The serial terminal is not bad, but that is also a shady proposition. 
Given the number of variables, and the tendancy _not_ to support them 
out of the box.

So, perhaps we can work out an arrangement with the establishment.  Does 
anyone want to donate a KVM Switch?


thanks,
    Joshua