K, I'm sure this has been asked, and answered a thousand time here, but I couldn't find it.

Heres the situation, I go to class, leave my box running at home, booted in Slackeware as <user>.

There is a program on my box at home that I need to demonstrate but I forgot to ftp it to my account at school. I want to ssh into my box, and show it off from there.

I type ssh username@<my ipaddress> and nothing happens. It just hangs.

I've pinged my box, and everything works fine. Am I completly missing something or what?

Any help would be ultra nice.


here is some output with -v (Names changed to protect the innocent)

did you poke a hole in your firewall to access sshd?

i just connect to my fqdn

No firewall to poke thru that I know of. This is just at home and connected to my cable modem via a hub.

I'm still a noob to Linux, and will probably be a noob forever when it comes to network stuff.

nah, you'll get better. for now, try to connect to your box with only your ip, that should work, then you will get a login

I tried it, but I got a time out.

what confuses me is
It says:
whats up with that. Is port 22 not open for some reason? If not, is there a way to open it?

Are you running sshd in your intrnet services? And check your firewall settings to see if you can acces your computer from outside or from your inside network only.

how does one check their firewall settings(if any) and what is sshd?

ssh deamon?

thanks
A TOTAL n00b

Well, the obvious question is, are you sure that is your IP?

Many ISPs have dynamic IPs, meaning your IP may change every so often.

Also, are you sure you don't have a firewall? I ask because ISP support for broadband modems is not the best (I assume you aren't using 56K, since you left it on) and it would seem more likely that you are connected to the modem via a router, which would act as a firewall.

sshd is ssh daemon. It must be running to let you connect to your box.

a hub huh? is this one of those cable/dsl routers? if so, did you forward port 22 to your internal IP set your box as the DMZ host?

Ok you need to have port 22 open on your firewall even with you actually setting it the computer will set it up because of the mandrake defaults I believe.

You then need to have the sshd setup and running. I don't know if you can do the following command but try this.
service sshd start

If that comes up with an OK then you have the ssh daemon working which means that isn't the problem.

Try it and come back.

Did u tried "ssh 127.0.0.1" on the box u want to connect to see if sshd is running?

if fails, check where is running sshd [/etc/ssh/sshd_config] .
Check line "Port 22" (may has a different port)

Check if something else is running on port 22 [ netstat -a]

k, i ssh'd to myself from my self via 127.0.0.1 and it worked like a champ. What does this mean.

heres a copy of my /etc/ssh/sshd_config

# $OpenBSD: sshd_config,v 1.65 2003/08/28 12:54:34 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/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin

# 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 2,1
#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

#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 yes
#PermitEmptyPasswords no

# Change to no to disable s/key passwords
#ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes

# Kerberos options
#KerberosAuthentication no
#KerberosOrLocalPasswd yes
#KerberosTicketCleanup yes

# GSSAPI options
#GSSAPIAuthentication no
#GSSAPICleanupCreds yes

# Set this to 'yes' to enable PAM authentication (via challenge-response)
# and session processing. Depending on your PAM configuration, this may
# bypass the setting of 'PasswordAuthentication'
#UsePAM yes

#AllowTcpForwarding yes
#GatewayPorts no
#X11Forwarding no
#X11DisplayOffset 10
#X11UseLocalhost yes
#PrintMotd yes
#PrintLastLog yes
#KeepAlive yes
#UseLogin no
#UsePrivilegeSeparation yes
#PermitUserEnvironment no
#Compression yes
#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/libexec/sftp-server

what kind of stuff should i uncomment, if any thing. it would be hella swank if I could get this working.

Thanks for every ones help thus far.

i think you might have a router not just a hub
that little "hub" of yours what does it say on it?