<quote name="Joshua Lutes" date="Sat,  2 Aug 2008 at 09:48 -0600">
> Hey guys,
> 
> So, I have my home desktop set up with SSH.  It works pretty well and
> anytime I am not at my apartments I can ssh into it without any problems.
> However, when I am at home on my laptop, I can't seem to connect to it.  My
> desktop is currently connected directly to the wall and my laptop either
> connects through a wireless router that I own or a wireless router that my
> friend owns (my router is in the bedroom and too weak to make it to the
> living room ... that is what I get for buying the cheapest one I guess).
> 
> From my laptop at home, ssh hangs, but if I ssh into cs.byu.edu and then ssh
> to my home desktop, everything works great.  I figure it must have something
> to do with both computers coming from the same ip address because of the
> apartment complex setup and then trying to connect locally but I am not sure
> exactly why or how to fix it.

Most likely problem is you have to give ssh the local address of the
desktop instead of the public ip address when you are on the local
network. If that still doesn't work, make sure sshd is binding to both
interfaces.

Von Fugal

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