scp times out

[Josef Lowder]

Alex Dean <alex at crackpot.org> wrote:
> > $ scp filename joe at 192.168.1.68:/home/joe/filecopy
> This will give you more info about what's going on:
> scp -v filename joe at 192.168.1.68:/home/joe/filecopy

So I tried that and got this error message:

scp -v filename joe at 192.168.1.68:/home/joe/filename
Executing: program /usr/bin/ssh host 192.168.1.68, user joe, command
scp -v -t /home/joe/filename
OpenSSH_4.2p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7g 11 Apr 2005
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to 192.168.1.68 [192.168.1.68] port 22: Connection timed out
ssh: connect to host 192.168.1.68 port 22: Connection timed out
lost connection

= = =   So I examined the ssh_config file and found mostly remarked lines
and no clues that meant anything to me there.

$ cat ssh_config
#    $OpenBSD: ssh_config,v 1.20 2005/01/28 09:45:53 dtucker Exp $

# This is the ssh client system-wide configuration file.  See
# ssh_config(5) for more information.  This file provides defaults for
# users, and the values can be changed in per-user configuration files
# or on the command line.

# Configuration data is parsed as follows:
#  1. command line options
#  2. user-specific file
#  3. system-wide file
# Any configuration value is only changed the first time it is set.
# Thus, host-specific definitions should be at the beginning of the
# configuration file, and defaults at the end.

# Site-wide defaults for some commonly used options.  For a comprehensive
# list of available options, their meanings and defaults, please see the
# ssh_config(5) man page.

# Host *
#   ForwardAgent no
#   ForwardX11 no
#   RhostsRSAAuthentication no
#   RSAAuthentication yes
#   PasswordAuthentication yes
#   HostbasedAuthentication no
#   BatchMode no
#   CheckHostIP yes
#   AddressFamily any
#   ConnectTimeout 0
#   StrictHostKeyChecking ask
#   IdentityFile ~/.ssh/identity
#   IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
#   IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_dsa
#   Port 22
#   Protocol 2,1
#   Cipher 3des
#   Ciphers aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128-cbc,arcfour,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc
#   EscapeChar ~

Host *
  ForwardX11 yes
  ForwardX11Trusted yes
  Protocol 2,1
    StrictHostKeyChecking no