Carlo1973
January 31st, 2010, 07:39 PM
Hi there, I've been struggling for awhile to get my system to accept SSH connections. I've checked the forums here as well as other places on the net, but nothing i've tried seemed to work - and it got to the point where my connection got borked in the process. So I'm starting with a clean install. I am using Ubuntu 9.10 64bit. I am behind a dlink dir-655 router - this computer is completly wireless. For the moment I'm only concerned with getting SSH to work internally within my network. I can do the port forwarding for external access later.
I've installed openssh-server (sudo apt-get install openssh-server)
I've configured sshd_config with the following options:
PermitRootLogin no
AllowUsers nx limited
(* I added the nx user in advance as I plan on installing nxserver once I have SSH working both internal on my network and external. The limited user is just as it is called - limited access, but with enough rights for me to do what I need to do when i'm remote)
Everything else is default. The RSA/DSA key pairs were generated automatically apon installing OpenSSH-Server
When I try to use PuTTY from my wife's window's xp laptop to this box it times out and never establishes a connection.
The end target for this is so that I can remote from my wife's computer to this box so that I can practice for a few exams while being in the same room with her while she watches tv (rather than walking up 2 flights of stairs and at the other end of the house).
The other reason for wanting to get SSH and hopefully NX working on this station is that I work in the IT department of a small company, and we need a connection outside of our network for basic network testing (from outside the company network -> in to the company network). I'm the new guy in our department and although I have some linux skill I'm still a novice. There is only one other Linux guy there - he's more advanced than I am. He tried to assist me but without him seeing my system he couldn't figure out why it wouldn't connect as easily it should have.
Any and all help on this matter would be greatly appreciated. I can post the contents of my ssh_config and sshd_config (although I never touched ssh_config at all, and the only changes made to sshd_config are mentioned above)
Thanks!!
Carlo
I've installed openssh-server (sudo apt-get install openssh-server)
I've configured sshd_config with the following options:
PermitRootLogin no
AllowUsers nx limited
(* I added the nx user in advance as I plan on installing nxserver once I have SSH working both internal on my network and external. The limited user is just as it is called - limited access, but with enough rights for me to do what I need to do when i'm remote)
Everything else is default. The RSA/DSA key pairs were generated automatically apon installing OpenSSH-Server
When I try to use PuTTY from my wife's window's xp laptop to this box it times out and never establishes a connection.
The end target for this is so that I can remote from my wife's computer to this box so that I can practice for a few exams while being in the same room with her while she watches tv (rather than walking up 2 flights of stairs and at the other end of the house).
The other reason for wanting to get SSH and hopefully NX working on this station is that I work in the IT department of a small company, and we need a connection outside of our network for basic network testing (from outside the company network -> in to the company network). I'm the new guy in our department and although I have some linux skill I'm still a novice. There is only one other Linux guy there - he's more advanced than I am. He tried to assist me but without him seeing my system he couldn't figure out why it wouldn't connect as easily it should have.
Any and all help on this matter would be greatly appreciated. I can post the contents of my ssh_config and sshd_config (although I never touched ssh_config at all, and the only changes made to sshd_config are mentioned above)
Thanks!!
Carlo