SSH connection problem

[Brian McKee]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Zhengguo Xu <tworiversfolk at gmail.com> wrote:
> OpenSSH_4.7p1 Debian-8ubuntu1.2, OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007
> debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
> debug1: Applying options for *
> debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0
> debug1: Connecting to 192.168.1.35 [192.168.1.35] port 22.
> debug1: connect to address 192.168.1.35 port 22: Connection timed out
> ssh: connect to host 192.168.1.35 port 22: Connection timed out
>
> when i did the same on desktop, there's a lot of message coming out on
> screen and i was asked to put into my password. after that, connection to
> laptop was established.

Try a simple 'ping' from laptop to desktop.

Also, output results of

'sudo iptables -L' on the desktop.