SSH - cant connect

[John Summerfield]

On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 17:15 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 15:58, xray wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > on my FC3 laptop i have the problem that i cant connect via ssh. I tried 
> > putty and cygwin ssh but both cant establish connection.
> > First thought, iptables are the reason. But after a 'service iptables 
> > stop' the problem wasnt solved.
> 
> Can you do a 
> 
> sudo nmap <remote-ip-addr> -p 22
> 
> and see if the port is indeed open? Oh.. is ssh actually started?

You don't need sudo (or su) for that.

By far the easiest way to test a single port is
telnet rip 22

With ssh you may need to press the enter key to elicit a response.