Transferring Files to New Ubuntu System

[Brian McKee]

On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 12:57 -0500, Joseph Polanik wrote:
> Okay, I go a crossover cable; installed ssh server on the Ubuntu (host 
> or destination system); and restarted sshd. the source/client system had 
> ssh client installed.
> 
> 
> however, when trying to connect from the client system I got the following:
> 
> 
> ssh: dell-desktop: Temporary failure in name resolution
> lost connection
> 
> (dell-desktop is the pre-configured hostname.)

Since this is a one shot deal - don't worry about using host names.
Figure out what the ip address of the server is (via network manager, or
ifconfig in a terminal session) and ssh to that, not the host name.

Brian
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