Why can't I ssh to my linux?

[babyboss]

I don't know what happen.. but I just can't ssh my linux box. I get a refuse connection msg when I tried to. Please help.

[thaddaeus]

we need more info, the system your running,... soforth,

is ssh running, and does the user have permisson to login in ssh

[sharth]

what command are you running to get access to ssh. did you install a ssh server? what distro are you running?

[teeitup]

Have you been able to ssh to it before?

What's the output of ps -ef |grep sshd on the box the your trying to connect to.

[Hayl]

post any relevant errors from the ssh log files... they log files will be somewhere in /var/log.

if the logs do not have any error messages, then please edit your ssh configuration to turn up the level of logging, then try again and then look through the log files.

[Icarus]

As mentioned, make sure the daemon is running with "ps -ef|grep sshd"

Also check the /etc/ssh/ssh_config

Are trying to log on as a user or root?

[Seminole]

As noted make sure that the ssh server is installed and running.

Also if you have a router and are trying to access the PC remotely, you'll need to forward port 22 to the IP if your linux box.