Hosts.deny and hosts.allow are empty on both machines. I cant see how the firewall can be involved, since the problem machine and the win-box is behind the firewall After locking in the auth-log file ont non-working machine, I'll find this entry: fatal: monitor_read: unsupported request: 24 -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wade Chandler Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 10:55 PM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: SSH-Problems Clark, Patricia wrote: > Have you looked at your /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny? Your symptoms > are typical of a denial of access. > > Patti > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tomas Larsson [mailto:ktl@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 3:19 PM > To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: SSH-Problems > > > I'm trying to log in to one of my RH9-boxes from a WinXP box. I'm using > PuTTy as a client. > I can w/o any problem log in to the first box, but to the other one the > connection is terminated directly. > Any one that knows what I'm doing wrong. > The first RH-box acts as a firewall and sits between my ADSL-modem and the > local network. > The other RH-box is working as an HTTP-server with a local IP. > I can W/O any problem connect through HTTP and ping the second box. > > This or your firewall is blocking. Wade -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list