Mirko Vukovic wrote: > Hello, > > I am having intermittent trouble logging into a remote linux machine > depending on the machine from which I am trying to log from. I am > logging in from windows XP machines with cygwin and cygwin's ssh. > > - If I try to log in from my windows desktop to the rhel5 that sits > next to it, things work > - If I try to log in from my windows laptop from home, to the rhel5, I > get `Permission denied, please try again' > - If I first log into my windows desktop from my laptop, I can then > log into the rhel5 from my desktop. > > It seems to me that the rhel5 is refusing the connection from my > laptop because of the type of network connection or latency (pinging > from laptop to rhel5 is 200-300 msec and from windows desktop to rhel5 > is < 5 msec), or some other such issue. But does that make sense? > > The frustrating thing is that a few months ago (when I last attempted > this) I was able to log in remotely from my laptop, even from across > the pacific. > > Watching a game on TV....so just a quick thought/suggestion. How about running sshd with -d (debugging) to see if anything in the logs will help narrow down the problem?
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