I am a newbie trying out SSH. The scenario is I have 2 machines – Windows 7 PC(Desktop) and a VMWare machine (Windows 7). Cygwin installed on both. I am trying to connect the VMWare machine to the desktop. I have installed the OpenSSH server on Desktop server. I verified it is running, using netstat.
I modified the Windows firewall, by adding to the Inbound Rules to allow connections for port 22.
My problem is I am unable to connect from the VMWare machine.
$ ssh -v user_name@my_machine
OpenSSH_5.5p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8q 2 Dec 2010
debug1: Connecting to my_machine port 22.
debug1: connect to address my_machine port 22: Connection refused
ssh: connect to host my_machine port 22: Connection refused
What am I doing wrong? What are my options to configure? Any links or answers would be helpful.
Thank you.
WM
You should make sure that my_machine allows inbound connection. Check the firewall….
(if you can run this command locally – but not from the other machine it might be that case).