I am running Debian Lenny on a home server. I have openssh installed. When I try to connect to it with my laptop running Vista, I have to run to the server and click ALLOW on a popup window that says another user is trying to control my desktop and has two buttons - ALLOW REFUSE. What do I need to do on the server side so I can connect with my laptop and not have to run to the server to click ALLOW??

Also, is there a GUI interface for configuring OPENSSH server? I am running GNOME.

ADDITIONAL INFO: I am using RealVNC on my laptop running VISTA to connect to my Debian Server.

How are you connecting from Vista? You need to use SSH software like PuTTY http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/.

that doesn't sound like ssh, but more like remote desktop or similar. with what tool or application are you trying to connect from Vista?