I have an apple network over an Airport Extreme with two iBooks, an intel macbook, and a linux PC. Just recently, I decided out of curiosity to see if the SSH login worked. So I turned on the remote login on the macs, and typed in the necessary command in the linux terminal.

It worked with the ibooks. I could get on, and even move files around with fish, but when I tried to log in to the macbook, it came back with the message, "Connection refused." I checked, and the remote login was enabled. then I turned it around, and logged in to the Linux box from the macbook, and it worked like a charm.

Any ideas as to the reason for this inconsistency? Might it have something to do with the fact that the macbook is intel and the ibooks aren't, or am I just missing a simple preferences option somewhere?

Oh, yeah. I did check the firewall on the macbook. it had the appropriate firewall port open.

I had similar effects when running different Linuxes with different ssh-Releases.

ssh -2 forces ssh to the older ssh-protocol, its worth to try this !

I've moved this to the General forum since its not really a Linux specific question.

Wouldn't Other *nix be a more appropriated place since OSX is some form of Unix? Nice to see you as a mod by the way reddazz ^_^.

I think you are right. I'll ask one of the mods for the General Forums to move it to Other *nix. Thanks for the comments by the way.

Thanks for the tip, it did the trick, but do you happen to know how to do that with fish? Konsole is all well and good, but I much prefer graphical interface, mainly because I don't know how to do anything with Konsole other than log in and look around.

I'd be a bit concerned here if ssh -2 fixes the problem. The question I would ask, why would you be trying to use anything other then ssh version 2? I'd make sure all your linux boxes are set to only support version 2.....

To do this make sure the only Protocol in /etc/ssh/sshd_config and /etc/ssh/ssh_config is listed as 2.

Fine that it worked out !
I think (but never tested it) that you can configure this in the ssh_config-files !