Barry, I will check on firewall, though I have not deliberately activated one. This machine has run for several years without this occurance. I will check on port 22. All other machnes on the LAN are Windows. Many thanks for getting back to me. John On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 11:31 PM, Barry Brimer <lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I have a CENTOS 5 box that can reach the internet and can ping to/from > all > > windows system on my home network. The catch is that I can not connect > to > > the box using SSH from any windows machine, though they can easily ping > the > > linux box and vice-versa. > > Is there a firewall running on the Linux machine, and if so, is it > allowing tcp port 22 through? Are you able to ssh from other Linux > systems on your home network (if there are any) or have you only tried > sshing from Windows systems? Is sshd running? > > Barry > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- John McKelvey 10819 Middleford Pl Ft Wayne, IN 46818 260-489-2160 jmmckel@xxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos