> 1. What system is gtelnet running on? Workstation, running mandrake 9.0
> 3. From the Mandrake system, can you ssh to localhost (or to 127.0.0.1)? If > not, EXACTLY what error does the ssh client report? (If you don't have an > ssh client installed, see what "telnet localhost 22" does. It should > display the banner from the sshd daemon.) Its a very minimal install on the server, it has neither ssh or telnet clients > 4. When gtelnet "then fails", does it display any sort of error message? If > you are interpreting no response as a failure, how long are you waiting? I wait until the status display goes from displaying "connected" until it goes to "not connected" tried to connect using the ssh command, got this error ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host > 5. In the ifconfig output you posted here, there are packet counts for RX > and TX packets on each interface. After you try and fail to ssh from the > wworkstation to the server, are the server's eth0 packet counts higher? If > ssh'ing to localhost on the server also fails, the same question for its lo > interface. RX/TX values do increase. > 6. I'm assuming you are running sshd as a daemon and not through inetd. But > let's check the basics here. So ... > > A. If you do a "ps ax | grep ssh", does sshd show up on the > process list? yes > B. If you do a "netstat -nl", does port 22 show up on the list? It > will be a line something like this: > tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN yes > 7. After a failure, does sshd log anything? I'm not sure how Mandrake keeps > its logs, but something like this should work (as root): > > grep sshd /var/log/* log files are stored there, but can't tell which one belongs to ssh > 8. Finally, do you have anything in your configuration that blocks ssh > connects from this workstation? Are there any relevant entries in > /etc/hosts.deny? no > There are probably more things to check, but this set is a good start. On another note, I corrected the system clock on tthe server (it thought it was 1998) now one of my user accounts has expired, how do I reactiveate it. -- "You can bring any calculator you like to the midterm, as long as it doesn't dim the lights when you turn it on." - Hepler, Systems Design 182 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
