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Playing around with connecting to rpi from my laptop. I found the following useful:

the ssh service does not start by default. to make it do this use the command
Now reboot the rpi and the ssh service will start automatically. You can now connect to the rpi if you know its ip address but this is a bit annoying as hostnames are easier to remember and don't change. to enable easy hostname connection install avahi on the rpi
Again restart the rpi. Now from your laptop you can connect to the rpi using
Now you can control the rpi just by connecting a power cable and an ethernet cable and logging on from your networked laptop. Phew.

The easy way to enable SSH is shown in the wiki. http://elinux.org/R-Pi_Troubleshooting# ... h_in_to_Pi

I have never seen this solution with avahi before. A lot of people are having problems accessing the RPi by hostname from a Windows PC. Will this fix the problems with access from a Windows PC?

Suggestion, openssh-server is what most of the linux community uses on Debian and Ubuntu etc.

To install you need do the following

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install openssh-server

once installed on your Raspberry Pi it is ready to use

Using your client computer if on a linux computer you need nothing more than enter on the command line or terminal window the following

ssh IP_Address_of_Pi -l pi

ssh = the command
IP_Address_of_Pi = 192.168.1.7 (use ifconfig to identify your IP address on your Raspberry Pi)
-l = minus el (-L but in lowercase means Loginname)
pi = Username as used by the Raspberry Pi Debian build (alter according to image installed)

eg. ssh 192.168.1.7 -l pi

Enter password

Provided both client and server are on the same network you can use ssh this way

Great!
I log in from my Windoze machine using putty, then use ultravnc. Works well!

zebo-the-fat wrote:Great!
I log in from my Windoze machine using putty, then use ultravnc. Works well!

Could you tell me how you configured your avahi? I used the standard configuration from http://elinux.org/RPi_Advanced_Setup#Se ... _operation and all putty tells me: Unable to open connection to raspberrypi.local Host does not exist. I suspect it has something to do with the DNS server, I think the configuration doesn't send the hostname to the DNS server... edit: I'm almost sure, because I can ping from the command line(in Winblows) to the IP-adress of my pi, but not to raspberrypi.local. However I CAN ping to raspberry.local and ssh into it from the secure shell of the pi.

Please help me?

Byteme wrote:

zebo-the-fat wrote:Great!
I log in from my Windoze machine using putty, then use ultravnc. Works well!

Could you tell me how you configured your avahi? I used the standard configuration from http://elinux.org/RPi_Advanced_Setup#Se ... _operation and all putty tells me: Unable to open connection to raspberrypi.local Host does not exist. I suspect it has something to do with the DNS server, I think the configuration doesn't send the hostname to the DNS server... edit: I'm almost sure, because I can ping from the command line(in Winblows) to the IP-adress of my pi, but not to raspberrypi.local. However I CAN ping to raspberry.local and ssh into it from the secure shell of the pi.

Please help me?

Figured out how I can address my pi as raspberrypi.local from my windows pc, I added it to the elinux wiki, I hope I didn't break any geek protocol by doing that ... Anyhow: http://www.elinux.org/RPi_Advanced_Setup I added Get Wind/blows to play nice with avahi.