Re: SPAM: Re: 2004-06-10 LUG Meeting Notes.
David Gibbons <[email protected]>
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Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > PDXLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug Normally the owner lady is pretty nice about any requests we have, was it her or one of the employee's who declined the request?