On Thursday 18 September 2003 07:15 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > Hello there, > > I hope someone can help me with this. > > I'm having a hard time connecting to a friend's Mandrake box via ssh. > I'm getting an error "ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by > remote host". > > Firewall is not in the way. sshd is running. It's not a routing problem. > > What else can I check?
Check the hosts.deny file to see if he is denying all hosts. If so, he will have to explicitly allow your IP to connect. If he installed Mandrake on the Secure setting, msec will keep overwriting the hosts.deny file with one that denies all. With that setting you must explicitly allow the traffic that you want to hit the machine. If you have a dynamic IP, that will definitely be a problem. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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