On Fri, 12 Dec 2025 11:29:36 -0800 wes <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2025 at 11:15 AM Rich Shepard <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On Fri, 12 Dec 2025, Rich Shepard wrote: > > > > > Will get to this soon. > > > > Thinking how this issue has puzzled everyone and has not been resolved the > > way such issues were in the past, when all hosts were running the same > > Slackware version, it may well be due to version issues. > > > > > it is not a version issue. it's a network issue. I think it would be worth > a try to reboot your router.
I agree that this is most likely not a version issue, but a configuration issue. Since your hosts files are not accurate, you should use IP adresses instead of hostnames if you decide to keep trying. > > In the meantime I'll use the time-proven sneaker-net moving a USB flash > > drive between the desktop and the laptop. > > > > > since you can connect to the desktop from the laptop, you can initiate file > transfers in either direction. > > scp salmo:/path/to/file ./file > scp ./file salmo:/path/to/file > > this does involve knowing the path on salmo while typing on caddis, which > can sometimes be more complicated to get correct than just copying to usb. > every method has its place and time. If you use "sftp" it can list directories and change directories, then allow you to "put" or "get" files. sftp -PNNNN salmo ###NNNN is your ssh port "lcd directoryname" to change local directory "cd directoryname" to change remote directory "lls" to list the local working directory "ls" to list the remote working directory "put filename" to copy from local to remote "get filename" to copy from remote to local "quit" to logout Regular expressions can be used to copy multiple files at once. Good Luck -- Derek Loree <[email protected]>
