Do you have OpenSSH or Dropbear, or whatever SSH server your distro uses? Have you confirmed the sshd is running on your machines? Eg. systemctl status sshd? Have you confirmed any local firewall SW is permitting ssh traffic?
On Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 9:10 AM Robert Citek <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, Rich. > > To troubleshoot, you should use ssh with the -vvv option. Then … > > Can you ssh from the desktop to localhost? > Can you ssh from the desktop to the desktop’s IP? > Can you ssh from the laptop to localhost? > Can you ssh from the laptop to the laptop’s IP? > > Answering those questions will tell us if you have ssh running as a service > and accepting in-bound traffic as well as if the ssh client is working. > > We can then move on to any possible network issues. > > Regards, > - Robert > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM Rich Shepard <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On Wed, 10 Dec 2025, [email protected] wrote: > > > > > Can you ping each machine from the other on the ssh port(23, I think)? > > > > The default ssh port is 22; as I show in my message ports here are 5 > > digits. > > > > I can ping the desktop from the laptop, but not the other direction. The > > desktop reports 'destination host unreachable.' > > > > Both hosts are, of course, in /etc/hosts. > > > > Rich > > >
