Re: [Hampshire] Putty Issue

> I am trying to connect to my Debian box via windows using Putty currently
> both machines are having there i.p credentials assigned through DHCP.
> Currently I can connect to the Debian box using SSH by entering the i.p
> address of the Debian machine.

OK. SSH is working, then.

> I currently have a few issues which I would like to get to the bottom of
> firstly rlogin isn't working

I wouldn't worry too much about that. rlogin is deprecated - it sends
everything in cleartext. Stick to ssh - it does everything rlogin does and
more...

> My Debian box has the hostname Shinobi ( Well that's what it tell's me
> when I enter hostname -a in the cli )
>
> When I attempt to connect using this hostname using the Xtra problems box
> it won't connect am I right in saying that I need to edit a config file in
> Debian to define my hostname?

Nope. That will likely already be done.

What you need to do is to inform your XP box about where Shinobi is. There
are several ways to do this - the most scalable way is to let your DNS
server resolve the name properly. But how to do that requires knowledge of
how you do DNS...

Vic.