And for improved security, I highly recommend you disable root logins via ssh.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/14/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Alex Maynard</b> <<a href="mailto:amaynard-vQ8rsROW2HJSpjfjxSPG1fd9D2ou9A/h@public.gmane.org">
amaynard-vQ8rsROW2HJSpjfjxSPG1fd9D2ou9A/h@public.gmane.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>Hi All:<br><br>I am confused by what may be a fairly basic networking question:
<br><br>I have two linux computers attached to a Linksys router, one of which<br>I would like to be able to log into from both the other computer and from<br>my office.<br><br>If I use the address that I get from /sbin/ifconfig I am able to login
<br>from the other computer linked to the same router, but not from outside.<br><br>Also the address I get from /sbin/ifconfig is entirely different from the<br>one I see if I go to <a href="http://ww2.economics.utoronto.ca/whoami.php">
http://ww2.economics.utoronto.ca/whoami.php</a>, which<br>reads off IP addresses and the IP address that I read off from that page<br>is the same for both computers hooked up to the router. So I am guessing<br>that this is the router address and that the outside world is only seeing
<br>as far as the router and can't get past this? Does that sound right? If<br>so, does anyone know of a simple way to change this so that I can log in<br>from outside?<br><br>Alex<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>--<br>
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