Vine Erractic on Mac
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I am having limited success running the Vine Server/Viewer 3.0 combo on my Macs, and I am running out of patience. I am using the Viewer on my MacBook Pro OS 10.4.11. I have a server at home, and a server at work both running Vine Server. Both servers are older G4's running 10.4.11.
My goal is to use connect via SSH both locally and remotely to both machines at different times. I have had success all around, but I have also experienced a LOT of trouble where connections are not possible. Both machines are sitting behind routers, and I've spent a great deal of time fooling around with various firewall settings here and there, etc.
The bottom line, though, is that every time I get the connection to work, it invariably stops working after a period of minutes or hours in every scenario, and I waste another chunk of time trying to figure out why. What is going on?
My goal is to use connect via SSH both locally and remotely to both machines at different times. I have had success all around, but I have also experienced a LOT of trouble where connections are not possible. Both machines are sitting behind routers, and I've spent a great deal of time fooling around with various firewall settings here and there, etc.
The bottom line, though, is that every time I get the connection to work, it invariably stops working after a period of minutes or hours in every scenario, and I waste another chunk of time trying to figure out why. What is going on?
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Thank you for the reply...
1. I already have both routers set up to assign the same IP to each computer each time it connects.
2. My work server has a static IP from our ISP, the other has had the same IP for a couple of years now from my own ISP, and I check it pretty much every day. I would notice if it changed.
3. Both routers and servers are already on UPC's.
4. I can look into the DHCP lease time, but that seems like low probability for a solution.
Here's an example. I am at work. I connect with Vine locally to the server on the same LAN. An hour later, the connection fails, and I am unable to reestablish it. Could switching the user environment on my Viewing Mac cause any trouble like this?
cg
The other machine turned out to be some kind of SSH login issue that was being reported in the console log, but not the Vine Server log. A restart of the computer has solved this issue.
Thank you for the support.
Chris