Hi Les Thanks for your reply. That helped me realise that I had made a stupid mistake by misspelling the host name. It all works now.
BR David > -----Original Message----- > From: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:jenkinsci- > us...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell > Sent: 21 March 2013 12:35 > To: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: How to connect to a Linux slave? > > On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 4:06 AM, David Aldrich > <david.aldr...@emea.nec.com> wrote: > > Hi > > > >> What do you mean that an Ubuntu slave uses Windows authentication? > As > >> I said before, you need to try logging into the slave directly via ssh. > >> When that works, try it with Jenkins. > > > > Ok, please ignore my 'Windows authentication' comment. > > > > Yes, I can try SSH, but my understanding is that if I specify a > username/password in the 'Advanced' settings it shouldn't be necessary to > use SSH. I don't understand why the username/password method is not > working on the Ubuntu slave. > > Well, if you would 'ssh -vv' from the jenkins server to the host that is > refusing the connection, you might get very verbose messages telling you > why. I doubt if anyone on the list is going to guess the > answer for you. Normally passwords or keys should work. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikes...@gmail.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > Click > https://www.mailcontrol.com/sr/NIJ!sjcJzfPGX2PQPOmvUs3oG7lEfVxCFWu! > 5q9VhFwHeGvkfhzuhDkoevdjI8!CAzNTk47hsmH1JTd!1uc+!w== to report > this email as spam. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
