ssh logins on 10.04

[Reinhold Rumberger]

On Tuesday 07 September 2010, gene heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 07, 2010 09:37:02 am Dave Thacker did opine:
> > On Tuesday, September 07, 2010 06:38:15 am gene heskett wrote:
> > > Greetings;
> > > 
> > > I just installed 10.04 on my milling machine and it seems
> > > bound and determined to keep me from configuring it for file
> > > sharing and for ssh logins.  From here:
> > > 
> > > [root at coyote ~]# ssh -l gene shop
> > > ssh: connect to host shop port 22: Connection refused
> > > 
> > > gene is a valid (and only) user on that machine.
> > > 
> > > What do I need to enable or reconfigure to enable that?
> > > 
> > > Thanks.
> > 
> > Is the firewall enabled?
> > sudo ufw status
> 
> inactive, so that isn't it.  Next?
> 
> > Dave
> 
> Thanks Dave

Well, either your network connection isn't working or your sshd isn't 
running or it isn't listening on that port/network interface.

One way of making sure your sshd is working properly is trying
"ssh 127.0.0.1" while physically pn the machine you're trying to 
access.

  --Reinhold