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Author: Michael Havens
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: scp problems
they are on the same subnet and as to the the firewall they are distributed
by my wireless router so I guess they go through a firewall in that. I
never started iptables but I did start ufw...... I added a rule and that
fixed it! Thanks for the help.

:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Bryan O'Neal <
> wrote:

> Are you running iptables? Are the computers on the same subnet or are the
> going through an external firewall?
> On Jul 1, 2014 6:32 PM, "Michael Havens" <> wrote:
>
>> discoveries:
>> Computer A
>> 1- it will ping Computer B
>> 2- It will telnet to Computer B
>> 3- it will scp to Computer B if I use Host name rather than IP address
>> computer B
>> 1- it will ping computer A
>> 2- it will not telnet to Computer A
>> 3- it will not scp to computer A using ipaddress or host name
>> 4- discovered ssh service not enabled- ran 'sudo service ssh start'
>> 5- still get a 'connection timed out' error
>> (I don't see why it would be listening on another port as I didn't
>> configure it to listen on another port
>>
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Dennis Kibbe <>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Michael Havens <> writes:
>>>
>>> > Sorry enrique.... that was the quickest way I figured to describe it.
>>> > push = file user@ipadd:file
>>> > pull = computer <- user@ipadd:file
>>> >
>>> > as for the server not running I could do it the other day..... now
>>> that is
>>> > weird! I mapped the IP address to a name in my router and it doesn't
>>> > recognize the IP address any longer. Cool! That is another way to make
>>> your
>>> > network more secure!
>>> >
>>> > :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>> >
>>> > On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 2:59 PM, <> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> Michael, don't be creative with the description of your problems,
>>> please
>>> >> translate:
>>> >>
>>> >>> push a file to another computer
>>> >>> pull that file
>>> >>>
>>> >>
>>> >> The error:
>>> >>
>>> >>> 'connection timed out'
>>> >>>
>>> >> regularly means (assuming that both boxes can ping each-other) that
>>> the
>>> >> SSH server is not running.
>>> >> ET
>>> >>
>>> >> Michael Havens writes:
>>> >>
>>> >>> When I try to push a file to another computer it says 'connection
>>> timed
>>> >>> out'. and when I try to pull that file it says that I entered the
>>> wrong
>>> >>> password.
>>> >>> What's wrong with this picture?
>>> >>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>> >>>
>>> Mike,
>>>
>>> Try some basic network troubleshooting.
>>>
>>> $ ping -c4 "ip add of server"
>>>
>>> Do you get a response? If yes, then
>>>
>>> $ telnet "ip add of server" 22
>>>
>>> Is SSH listening on port 22?
>>>
>>> If not, then you need to figure out why. Is the service not running?
>>> Is SSH listening on another port?
>>>
>>> Let us know what you discover.
>>>
>>> Dennisk
>>>
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