Make sure you allow the originating ip in the hosts.allow file and punch a hole in the firewall (router) as well as forwarding the port to the correct ip for the host server

Mike Hoy <mhoy06@gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I just set up ssh server on this computer and was able to connect like this:
>
>ssh localhost
>
>and from my laptop connected to the same router like this
>
>ssh username@192.168.1.100
>
>Now I take it that I'm going to need my real ip address so I tried
>that and I got
>
>ssh: connect to host IP_ADDRESS port 22: Connection refused
>
>I thought it may have something to do with my router so I forwarded
>port 22 to this machine and same error. Any thoughts as to what's
>going on? I need to be able to connect to this machine from work
>tomorrow.
>
>-- 
>Mike Hoy
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