On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 07:07:15AM -0500, SOTL wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Well the positive news is that I am able to connect the two computers and
> transfer files by fish even though I am unable to log off the computer I am
> SSH into without rebooting that computer so I have fish working with a slight
> issues.
When you're logged into box A via SSH, when you want to get out, just
type "exit" (no quotes) at the prompt. That will discontinue the SSH
session and bring you back to the local prompt on your local machine.
>
> Next item on the Network agenda is to access the "Test Data Base" that I have
> on one box using OpenOffice 1.9 database management program in the other box.
>
> You may recall that I have two Mandrake 10.1 boxes connected with a router
> [Fire wall currently turned off. Fire will to be activated after I figure out
> DB connection procedure.]
>
> Anyway I did the following in this attempt to connect:
>
> Opened OpenOffice 1.9 selected new DB and then connect to an existing DB.
> [Why connect to an existing DB is under "Create New DB" instead of being
> under
> "Open" is beyond my grasp but that is where it is located.]
>
> Anyway a dialog box opens where you can either directly enter the file
> name or
> select by browse for the directory where the DB is located you want to
> connect to.
>
> I tried entering:
> http://branch @192.168.1.3/home/Test-DB
>
> I received the folowing notice:
> The file does not exist. Would you like to create it?
>
> I tried entering:
> fish://branch @192.168.1.3/home/Test-DB
>
> And I again received the folowing notice:
> The file does not exist. Would you like to create it?
First off, there shouldn't be any space between "branch" and the IP
address of the box. (I assume this is a way of specifying the
username before the IP address?) Second, the /home directory is owned by
root and only accessible by root. If you're a non-privileged user, you
shouldn't be able to create or alter files in that directory. More
properly, if you're going to coerce a database program to create files
in some place other than its default, you should put them in your home
directory, which might be something like /home/branch. Third, normally a
program creating a file will have some extension on the filename, rather
than just "Test-DB". Are you sure that "Test-DB" is the actual name of
that database?
Paul
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