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Hello, I have been searching and tweaking for an hour with not much luck. Sorry I don't know enough about neworking to make progress.

I am on a gentoo laptop 2.6.16, OpenSSH_4.2p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7j 04 May 2006.
I am trying to allow ssh from the local netwok onto my computer, this is my network settings (as I understand it), with xs in place of number clearly.

Code:

$ more /etc/conf.d/net

# This blank configuration will automatically use DHCP for any net.*

# scripts in /etc/init.d.  To create a more complete configuration,

# please review /etc/conf.d/net.example and save your configuration

# in /etc/conf.d/net (this file :]!).

#config_eth1=("dhcp")

#dhcp_eth1="nodns nontp nonis"

#config_eth0=("dhcp")

#dhcp_eth0="nodns nontp nonis"

modules=( "ifconfig")

config_eth0=( "192.xxx.x.xx broadcast 192.168.1.255 netmask 255.255.255.0")

routes_eth0=( "default gw 192.xxx.x.x")

I can ssh from my computer to others on the network but not from other computers to my computer. When I try and ssh into my machine I get

Code:

ssh: connect to host 192.xxx.x.x port 22: Connection refused

I can ping the machine ok.

I have allowed rsa authetification as I understand. I have tried uncomenting the line Port 22 but it made no difference. Do I have to restart something? This is my sshd config file.

Code:

#      $OpenBSD: sshd_config,v 1.72 2005/07/25 11:59:40 markus Exp $



# This is the sshd server system-wide configuration file.  See

# sshd_config(5) for more information.



# This sshd was compiled with PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin



# The strategy used for options in the default sshd_config shipped with

# OpenSSH is to specify options with their default value where

# possible, but leave them commented.  Uncommented options change a

# default value.



#Port 22

Protocol 2

#AddressFamily any

#ListenAddress 0.0.0.0

#ListenAddress ::



# HostKey for protocol version 1

#HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key

# HostKeys for protocol version 2

#HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key

#HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key

# Lifetime and size of ephemeral version 1 server key

#KeyRegenerationInterval 1h

#ServerKeyBits 768



# Logging

# obsoletes QuietMode and FascistLogging

#SyslogFacility AUTH

#LogLevel INFO



# Authentication:



#LoginGraceTime 2m

#PermitRootLogin yes

#StrictModes yes

#MaxAuthTries 6



#RSAAuthentication yes

#PubkeyAuthentication yes

#AuthorizedKeysFile    .ssh/authorized_keys



# For this to work you will also need host keys in /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts

#RhostsRSAAuthentication no

# similar for protocol version 2

#HostbasedAuthentication no

# Change to yes if you don't trust ~/.ssh/known_hosts for

# RhostsRSAAuthentication and HostbasedAuthentication

#IgnoreUserKnownHosts no

# Don't read the user's ~/.rhosts and ~/.shosts files

#IgnoreRhosts yes



# To disable tunneled clear text passwords, change to no here!

PasswordAuthentication no

#PermitEmptyPasswords no



# Change to no to disable s/key passwords

#ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes



# Kerberos options

#KerberosAuthentication no

#KerberosOrLocalPasswd yes

#KerberosTicketCleanup yes

#KerberosGetAFSToken no



# GSSAPI options

#GSSAPIAuthentication no

#GSSAPICleanupCredentials yes



# Set this to 'yes' to enable PAM authentication, account processing,

# and session processing. If this is enabled, PAM authentication will

# be allowed through the ChallengeResponseAuthentication mechanism.

# Depending on your PAM configuration, this may bypass the setting of

# PasswordAuthentication, PermitEmptyPasswords, and

# "PermitRootLogin without-password". If you just want the PAM account and

# session checks to run without PAM authentication, then enable this but set

# ChallengeResponseAuthentication=no

UsePAM yes



#AllowTcpForwarding yes

#GatewayPorts no

#X11Forwarding no

#X11DisplayOffset 10

#X11UseLocalhost yes

#PrintMotd yes

#PrintLastLog yes

#TCPKeepAlive yes

#UseLogin no

#UsePrivilegeSeparation yes

#PermitUserEnvironment no

#Compression delayed

#ClientAliveInterval 0

#ClientAliveCountMax 3

#UseDNS yes

#PidFile /var/run/sshd.pid

#MaxStartups 10



# no default banner path

#Banner /some/path



# override default of no subsystems

Subsystem      sftp    /usr/lib/misc/sftp-server

I am sure this is something very easy but I don't understand it. Could you please help me out I have tried to include the info that I think you may need. Thanks for any help.