Hi Les Thanks for your reply. That helped me realise that I had made a stupid mistake by misspelling the host name. It all works now.
BR David > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:jenkinsci- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell > Sent: 21 March 2013 12:35 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: How to connect to a Linux slave? > > On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 4:06 AM, David Aldrich > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi > > > >> What do you mean that an Ubuntu slave uses Windows authentication? > As > >> I said before, you need to try logging into the slave directly via ssh. > >> When that works, try it with Jenkins. > > > > Ok, please ignore my 'Windows authentication' comment. > > > > Yes, I can try SSH, but my understanding is that if I specify a > username/password in the 'Advanced' settings it shouldn't be necessary to > use SSH. I don't understand why the username/password method is not > working on the Ubuntu slave. > > Well, if you would 'ssh -vv' from the jenkins server to the host that is > refusing the connection, you might get very verbose messages telling you > why. I doubt if anyone on the list is going to guess the > answer for you. Normally passwords or keys should work. > > -- > Les Mikesell > [email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > Click > https://www.mailcontrol.com/sr/NIJ!sjcJzfPGX2PQPOmvUs3oG7lEfVxCFWu! > 5q9VhFwHeGvkfhzuhDkoevdjI8!CAzNTk47hsmH1JTd!1uc+!w== to report > this email as spam. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
