On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 11:22, David Gibbons wrote: > 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? > > > _______________________________________________ > PDXLUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug
She did. I think her statement was along the lines of her husband is in control of the computers, and he doesn't like it when people mess with that stuff. _______________________________________________ PDXLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug
