I hope this is the correct place to ask this question.
I'm trying to use Unison to sync a directory of files on my two computers here at the house. One is 'laptop-mepis-host' and the other is 'tower-salineos-base'. At one point, I had Unison set up to where it was contacting the laptop from the tower, but it asked for a password and, when I input my password (the one I use to login to that distro - I don't know what other password it could want), it asks for the password again. I tried it with and without a passphrase in the setup of Unison but it still asked for the password.The files I want to sync are in ~/Experiment01 on both machines.
Alternately, I tried ssh from the command line, using '$ ssh dave@laptop-mepis-host'. The tab on Konsole shows '(dave) laptop-mepis-host' but wants the password). I type in my login password, or <return>; it hesitates, says 'permission denied', and then asks for the password again. '$ ssh laptop-mepis-host' results in the konsole freezing for a looong time, and then it asks for the password, freezes, says 'permission denied', and asks for the password again. Oddly, doing this on either machine shows an IP address for the other as 184.106.31.177; however, my local IP addresses are in the 192. range.
Following the instructions given by Bruno at http://www.linuxformat.com/forums/viewt ... h+password, I got to 4(iii): I put in '$ ssh-copy-id dave@laptop-mepis-host' and the reply was 'ssh: connect to host 192.168.1.103 port 22: No route to host'. I transferred the ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub file to the laptop with a thumb drive, but same results.
Somewhere I'm supposed to put in a password, either to Unison or to ssh. I've read extensive documentation on both Unison and ssh but haven't seen anything else about a password.
Help will be greatly appreciated. Right now I'm using "sneaker net" and it's slooow and tedious.
In faith, Dave
Viva Texas