Verify openssh is enabled on the server with netstat. Verify you can connect to port 22 from client to server. Run ssh in debug mode to see messages. When you hit a point that it fails, then you have a better idea of what's wrong. On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > okay, so I bought a used computer to do Linux from scratch on. Well, I'm > going to ssh from my primary computer to the new computer but got a > 'Connection timed out' error. After googling for a bit I discovered ufw was > to blame. > > after I disabled the firewall I could ssh from 192.168.1.101 to > 192.168.0.4 > > the error I got going the other way was the connection timed out error: > > ssh mike@192.168.1.101 > ssh: connect to host 192.168.1.101 port 22: Connection timed out > > After googling some more I thought perhaps openssh-server wasn't > installed... but it is. So please.... what is the problem? I verifed > openssh-client is installed but I don't know what it could be. Could you > help me out? > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- James McPhee jmcphe@gmail.com