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  • May 24, 2003 at 2:17 am #2319793

    putty problems

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    by mjdme · about 19 years, 2 months ago

    Why can I only connect to my server locally using putty? I have tried to use putty on other machines outside my network, but all that happens is putty closes. Am I missing some settting? I am using MDK 9.1 on the server.

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    • May 24, 2003 at 7:42 pm #3360766

      putty problems

      by chris hardy · about 19 years, 2 months ago

      In reply to putty problems

      3 things:

      1) are you using the ‘external’ IP of your machine?

      2) do you have a firewall which is not allowing the correct port? If so.. open the port (23 for telnet 22 for SSH)

      3) Mandrake doesn’t allow telnet by standard, only SSH.

      Chris

      • May 24, 2003 at 10:24 pm #3360752

        putty problems

        by mjdme · about 19 years, 2 months ago

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    • May 24, 2003 at 10:21 pm #3360755

      putty problems

      by mjdme · about 19 years, 2 months ago

      In reply to putty problems

      I only ssh, no telnet allowed. There is no firewall. The ssh server is set to accept all connections.

    • May 24, 2003 at 10:23 pm #3360753

      putty problems

      by mjdme · about 19 years, 2 months ago

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      I usually run putty on a floppy from outside my network, but have had my laptop on various times to try to access, but either case putty opens and then just closes

    • May 29, 2003 at 6:25 am #3363106

      putty problems

      by mike o · about 19 years, 2 months ago

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      Make sure you have appropriate permissions in your /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files. If you have ALL:ALL in /etc/hosts.deny and you don’t have an explicit SSH entry in /etc/hosts.allow, that could be your problem.

      Good luck!
      Mike

      • May 29, 2003 at 6:26 am #3363105

        putty problems

        by mike o · about 19 years, 2 months ago

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        Amend that: make sure you have appropriate permissions set for EXTERNAL addresses. Obviously you’re okay as far as your internal access, otherwise you wouldn’t even be able to connect locally.

    • May 29, 2003 at 1:01 pm #3363035

      putty problems

      by mjdme · about 19 years, 2 months ago

      In reply to putty problems

      hosts.deny are telnet allow are only local addresses-what would use as external address?

    • June 6, 2003 at 12:14 am #3373004

      putty problems

      by m.mayberry · about 19 years, 2 months ago

      In reply to putty problems

      What is between your ssh server and the external network? I ran into something similar and it turned out that my router wasn’t accepting connections on port 22. Other possibilities include a software firewall on your server, or if you are at work, aproxy server may be blocking outbound traffic on port 22.

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