SSH problem

[Greg Byshenk]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:21:57AM -0800, Xin LI wrote:
> Xian Chen wrote:

> > I can use scp to move files from a linux to my Freebsd machine.
> > 
> > But, when I try to use WinSCP under windows, it always failed. WinSCP
> > errors: "Network error: Connection refused". Both scp & sftp fail if using
> > WinSCP.
> > 
> > Any clues for this?

> My guess is that you have specified an incorrect port number.  Try tcpdump?

Another possibility, IIRC, is a bad ssh hostkey (I haven't used WinSCP in
quite some time, but I recall that its error messages are not particularly
informative).

You can also check to see if you can reach the server.  Try a plain telnet
to port 22.  You won't actually be able to establish a connection if you
aren't running ssh, but you should see something like:

   Connected to <hostname>.
   Escape character is '^]'.
   SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.1p1 FreeBSD-20080901

 
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