Putty trouble

[lewsidius]

Hello World
I have a bizarre issue using PuTTy
At work I can connect to there wifi no problem with the pi and a laptop and use PuTTy but at home when I connect to the internet with the same pi and laptop it doesnt work with PuTTy
Has anyone else had this issue or know whats going on?
Thanks
Chris

[YaYa]

You may have different ip adresses between work and home. So if you try to access your pi with the same IP address, it cannot work.
Go to your home router and find your pi's ip adress (machine is named retropie over the network by default)
I wrote a step by step in this thread --->

http://www.sudomod.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=3567


Let me know if that helps

[Lphillimore]

As above really. I use AngryIP Scanner to grab my Pi's IP between networks. If it's working in one place, SSH isn't the issue it's simply on a different IP address and likely a different range.

If you're using windows type:

Windows Key + R
CMD
ipconfig /all

You'll then see your IP address, gateway etc.

This will give you the info for AngryIP scanner.

[144TECH]

Hello World
I have a bizarre issue using PuTTy
At work I can connect to there wifi no problem with the pi and a laptop and use PuTTy but at home when I connect to the internet with the same pi and laptop it doesnt work with PuTTy
Has anyone else had this issue or know whats going on?
Thanks
Chris

You can try Winscp too , if using windows.
Works fine.

[YaYa]

Winscp is great for file transferring, but i cannot remember if it has a command line console ?

[Lphillimore]

Yeah i use WinSCP for transferring my ROMs and Putty for and back end config work

[YaYa]

It's been a while i didn't use winscp. I started to transfer some roms to my Pi via samba share but i think i'm going to desactivate this and only use ssh and sftp, better and more secure !

[lewsidius]

I got a good video that helped me out, just sharing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj3MPmJhAPU

[lewsidius]

The other important thing I discovered is that I didn't have Bonjour installed which I think posed a problem for me. Luckily this Youtube video also helped me a lot! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj3MPmJhAPU

[YaYa]

You don't need Bonjour, you even don't need Samba or VNC.
Bonjour is in fact already implemented, it is just called avahi under linux.
You Just need regular ssh for putty terminal and winscp for file transfer and avahi for broadcasting a user friendly machine name to refer to (retropie.local by default instead of ip adress)
All mentionned protocols need daemons in the background which will consume processing power, thus power, and memory...
As for me, i will remove avahi and force static ip to save further power !