Try password-based authentication first. Once that's working, then work on key-based authentication. If you're using PuTTY, you have to run Pageant and also convert the key to PuTTY format.
--- Keith Gable A+ Certified Professional Network+ Certified Professional Storage+ Certified Professional Mobile Application Developer / Web Developer On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote: > FWIW, I ended up using vantage and it worked great. When i didn't make > stupid mistakes, it only took a few minutes to get a good headless dev > environment going in virtualbox on windows 7. > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Yeah, I'm used to just running ssh. I'll have to get the key files over > > using ftp or dropbox. > > > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 12:45 PM, bsquared <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On 10/23/2012 11:15 AM, Mark Hahn wrote: > >> >> I could not find a ppa for a current couchdb, but I did find several > >> > sources with directions. > >> > > >> > thanks. > >> > > >> > My biggest problem now is just trying to get ubuntu running headless > in > >> > virtualbox. > >> > > >> > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:09 AM, bsquared <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > > >> >> On 10/22/2012 12:08 PM, JC de Villa wrote: > >> >>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:53 AM, Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >>> > >> >>>> I have a number of servers on AWS for my day job. For my weekend > >> >> projects > >> >>>> I need a free dev environment. My wife doesn't like spending > money. > >> >>>> > >> >>>> I'm sure I can find a solution. I'm working with webfaction now to > >> see > >> >> if > >> >>>> they can donate the hosting. > >> >>>> > >> >>>> I spent a half-day trying to set up my dev environment in > virtualbox > >> on > >> >> my > >> >>>> local PC. But all I could find were ubuntu desktops and I just > want > >> a > >> >>>> headless server with SSH. That is all I'm familiar with. I tried > to > >> >> set > >> >>>> one up myself but it was a disaster. > >> >>> > >> >>> > >> >>> Here's the page for the server download: > >> >>> > >> >>> http://www.ubuntu.com/download/server > >> >>> > >> >>> Although I'd suggest compiling your own couchdb, since the only one > >> >>> available from the repo is version 1.0.1. I'm sure there's a ppa > >> >> somewhere > >> >>> for a more up-to-date version, but compiling on ubuntu it is fairly > >> >> trivial. > >> >>> > >> >> > >> >> I could not find a ppa for a current couchdb, but I did find several > >> >> sources with directions. I made a quick reference here: > >> >> gist.github.com/3940371 > >> >> > >> >> -- > >> >> Regards, > >> >> Brian > >> >> > >> >> > >> > > >> By headless I assume that you mean you don't wish to run X. Just have a > >> server for telnet / ssh. > >> > >> You are not limited to Ubuntu by the way. You may want to look at > >> Arch-Linux, or RedHat. Anyway ... > >> > >> I found this: > >> http://askubuntu.com/questions/16371/how-to-disable-x-at-boot-time. > >> > >> -- > >> Regards, > >> Brian > >> > >> > > >
