[Cube] problem

[Joseph B. Gurman]

     Gladys Pérez-Almiroty <almiroty at prtc.net> wrote:

>ok, what does ssh mean?i only have an old imac available, but no lan.
>sorry, i wish i knew more, but  i am learning everyday.
>i am contacting the technician so check on the cuda switch. i would
>have thought he did it, but i wasn't there. wi;ll let you know asap.

     ssh refers to the unix Secure Shell Login; in 
OS X, it means using the Terminal to start a 
remote terminal session on another machine on an 
IP network. You can connect two machines with 
Ethernet ports with a crossover patch cable (I 
believe the Cube will even support a 
straight-through cable, though I don't know about 
the iMac). Trouble is, you'd have to know the 
numerical IP address of the Cube to do so, both 
to change the iMac's IP address so it was part of 
the same LAN (e.g., both 
192.168.something.something_else, where 
<something_else> is unique to each machine), and 
to be able to use the shell (Terminal) command 
from the iMac,

	ssh <you_username>@<the_Cube's_IP_address>

     A simpler liveness test could be just 
connecting the Cube to an Ethernet hub or switch; 
they all have LED's that indicate whether anyone 
is home (i.e., there's a live Ethernet chip, 
connected by a good cable) at each port.

     HTH,

						Joe Gurman
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