I am trying to use SSH to connect to my Linux box from Windoze.
All I want to do is set it up to allow the existing systems passwords.

I want to know what settings to make in sshd_config
and what the best Windwos client I should use.
I am currently tryting to use PuttY but no go.

I set PasswordAuthentification to Yes but , thta didn't work
Here is my sshd_config file:

Port 22
ListenAddress 0.0.0.0
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key
RandomSeed /etc/ssh/ssh_random_seed
ServerKeyBits 768
LoginGraceTime 300
KeyRegenerationInterval 3600
PermitRootLogin no
IgnoreRhosts yes
StrictModes yes
QuietMode no
X11Forwarding no
FascistLogging no
PrintMotd yes
KeepAlive yes
SyslogFacility DAEMON
RhostsAuthentication no
RhostsRSAAuthentication no
RSAAuthentication yes
PasswordAuthentication yes
PermitEmptyPasswords no




Any Help is greatly appreciated

The only thing I can see is you should make the ListenAddress to be your external IP address.
Look in the logfile for startup failures/connects, else review your tcpwrappers/firewall rules don't exclude SSHD usage and/or your windoze box address.

I never had problems using either Igaly's SSH client or Putty, either with RSAAuthentication or
PasswordAuthentication under both SSH protocol versions.

PuTTy is a great tool for this!

About the listenadress: 0.0.0.0 means "listen on all interfaces. This setting should be 0.0.0.0, unless you have a multi homed host and you want to restict ssh trafix only to a certain interface.

1) First of all, is sshd running? (ps -ef|grep sshd ; netstat -an|grep LISTEN)
2) Can you ssh to localhost from the console?
3) Review your /etc/hosts.{allow|deny} (if they exist).
4) Try to connect to the sshd on your nic with much verbosity (ssh -v -v <yourhostname/ipaddr>). Whap happens?