Simple ssh connection from laptop

[TelescopeNerd]

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

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sudo update-rc.d ssh defaults

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

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sudo apt-get install avahi-daemon

Again restart the rpi. Now from your laptop you can connect to the rpi using

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ssh pi@raspberrypi.local

Now you can control the rpi just by connecting a power cable and an ethernet cable and logging on from your networked laptop. Phew.

[bredman]

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?

[soslug]

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

[zebo-the-fat]

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

[Byteme]

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]

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.