On Wed, 10 Dec 2025, Ben Koenig wrote:
Does ping 192.168.55.2 from the desktop work? I'd revert to using IP addresses to try connecting since that avoids hostname complications. e.g. 'ssh 192.168.55.2'. Even if it fails you will get something more descriptive.
Ping does not work. I just noticed that the laptop's .ssh/config did not exist, so I created one using the desktop's as a model. Still have the issue: $ ssh -vvv caddis OpenSSH_7.4p1, OpenSSL 1.0.2u 20 Dec 2019 debug1: Reading configuration data /home/rshepard/.ssh/config debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug2: resolving "caddis" port NNNNN debug2: ssh_connect_direct: needpriv 0 debug1: Connecting to caddis [192.168.55.2] port NNNNN. debug1: connect to address 192.168.55.2 port NNNNN: No route to host ssh: connect to host caddis port NNNNN: No route to host
Also, on the laptop, what is the output of 'ps -A |grep ssh' on your laptop?
1190 ? 00:00:00 sshd 1317 ? 00:00:00 ssh-agent 2065 ? 00:00:00 ssh-agent
I wonder if sshd died and needs to be restarted. Connection Refused can also occur if the daemon isn't running.
Stopped and started /etc/rc.d/rc.sshd. Same results. Rich
