Sorry for the delay in getting back, Christmas and New Years ... Happy New Year!
Thank-you Bill and cas for the suggestions, took the easy root first and changed the "Omega-xxx.local" to "192.168.3.1" and the connection worked. ie in the ATOM's .ftpconfig file:
original:
{
"protocol":"sftp",
"host":"Omega-xxxx.local",
"port":"22",
"user":"root",
"pass":"xxxxxxxx",
"remote":"/"
}
...changed to:
{
"protocol":"sftp",
"host":"192.168.3.1",
"port":"22",
"user":"root",
"pass":"xxxxxxxxxx",
"remote":"/"
}
Changing it back to "Omega-xxxx.local" brought back the problem. I'm not sure what you mean Bill with:
If the latter perhaps you've not yet generated a key pair for the new laptop and sent over the public key to the device?????
Either way its working now, thanks for the help.
Paul