Hello. I am trying to run an ssh server on my Lenny box. SSH is up and running (as far as I can tell). I use firestarter as my firewall interface. I made a rule to allow inbound connections on port 22. When I try to connect from another computer, I get an error saying "connection refused." I went to the server and typed in
and got the same error. I know firestarter is set correctly. I can go in and see my rule. Restarting the firewall doesn't seem to help. I have no idea what is blocking me at this point. Any suggestions.

thanks in advance

how do you know ssh is up and running?do these and tell if ur box is listening on port 22 or not

lsof | grep -i "LISTEN"

or may be lsof -i :22

how about doing this /etc/init.d/ssh status or do /etc/init.d/ssh start may be the sshd deameon is not started. Try posting the contents of

iptables -t filter -L INPUT -v

or check your sshd configuration files to see on what port is is listening on ( by default must be 22)

More info on this would be helpful

Thanks. Turns out ssh wasn't installed I was assuming it was for 2 reasons. First, someone told me that if I tried to ssh to my local-host and got any output, ssh was up and running. Secondly, the program I plan to use over ssh didn't give me any dependency errors during installation (it uses ssh by default). Also, this is the first time I have seen a Debian install that didn't ship with ssh. Odd? Installing ssh took care of the problem. I can't believe I overlooked that one. Too obvious.