On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Lisa Kachold wrote: >Are you colorblind? ^---------------------------------- only slightly >respond inline. ^---------------------------------------not sure what you mean. >Let's address each item until we resolve things: On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Michael Havens wrote: >>>A route add command is not persistent past a reboot or network restart. >>It seems to have been. I rebooted and still can't ssh from the laptop to the ubuntu. >But you couldn't also ssh BEFORE you did the route add so these are two different things. Yes I could. I could ssh from the laptop to the ubuntu (printserver) until I issued the command ' sudo ip route add 192.168.1.0/24dev eth0' on the ubuntu on the advice of my google search. Then I tried to delete it and add the proper route (192.168.0.1) but that didn't help any. >Take down your wlan (are you using wicd?) ^-----------Wireless is now off. I don't know what Mint uses... it doesn't say. >>>Verify that both boxes have a listening ssh daemon: >># sudo netstat -antp | grep 22 >>tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 433/sshd >> >>tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:139 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 12243/smbd >>tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:445 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 12243/smbd >> >Good you have sshd listening on port 22 on ubuntu. >You do NOT have sshd (daemon) listening on your laptop. >Be sure you have started it if you want to ssh to the laptop from ubuntu: ># sudo /etc/init.d/ssh start >In order to make sure ssh starts at boot in Ubuntu: ># sudo update-rc.d ssh defaults <-------------done >Reference: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBootupHowto >>Make sure you haven't installed DenyHosts or iptables that limits your connections: >># locate Deny |more >># sudo iptables-save |more >sudo locate Deny|more <------------------no respose >sudo locate iptables-save|more >/sbin/iptables-save >/usr/share/man/man8/iptables-save.8.gz >enter ># sudo iptables-save >You are looking to see if your iptables is up and configured to firewall ssh. Dump the response in here. bmike1@Michaels-PC:~$ sudo locate iptables-save /sbin/iptables-save /usr/share/man/man8/iptables-save.8.gz bmike1@Michaels-PC:~$ >Oops, sorry wrong link! ddclient is for opendns dynamic dns entries, that logs into your provider and resets a public ip when needed. Turn it down for now:* # sudo /etc/init.d/ddclient stop* ^-----------------done >Here's how to set it up (once you get ssh setup); it requires an opendns account. >http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1264710 ^--if you can remember please remind me later >your system is updated, if it runs? Correct? ^------------ Correct >Check your /etc/nsswitch.conf file to be sure it has >"hosts: files dns" Reference: http://www.faqs.org/docs/securing/chap6sec71.html I'm not sure what you want here. Here is the file: # /etc/nsswitch.conf passwd: compat group: compat shadow: compat hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 networks: files protocols: db files services: db files ethers: db files rpc: db files netgroup: nis >Then ping each server before trying to reconnect with ssh.<--- they ping both ways. >I am pretty sure that this will work now that you have them both on the same network. Be sure you don't >have any iptables running denying your port 22 on both servers! iptables -L doesn't have any deny rules in it I don't see any deny rules in my iptables. -- :-)~MIKE~(-: