Re: can't connect with putty

2005-08-17 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 09:24:51AM +, Daniel McBrearty wrote: > for anyone who might benefit from this in future ... it's a DLink problem. > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/08/msg01093.html It is not necessary to turn off dhcp. Just add a "prepend domain-name-servers" line to /etc/

Re: can't connect with putty

2005-08-17 Thread Daniel McBrearty
for anyone who might benefit from this in future ... it's a DLink problem. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/08/msg01093.html Thanks to all those who responded. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: can't connect with putty

2005-08-02 Thread Meni Shapiro
Sorry for barsting in on this thread in the middle...i didn't read the start of it... But are you running some kind of FW?? maybe iptables?? Try telnet the hostname like so: $telnetĀ  22 if you get a connection = good! it not a FW problem. If not = then you probably block ssh out connections or the

Re: can't connect with putty

2005-08-01 Thread Yoram Hekma
On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 06:54 +, Daniel McBrearty wrote: > > this is confusing message out of context but from what I remember: > > > > a) can you connect with ssh hostname > > b) with ssh IPaddress > > c) with putty & hostname > > d) with putty & IPaddress > > > > if yes to b and d, but not to

Re: can't connect with putty

2005-07-31 Thread wim
Adam Aube wrote: Cyprien wrote: On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 06:54:49AM +, Daniel McBrearty wrote: this is confusing message out of context but from what I remember: a) can you connect with ssh hostname b) with ssh IPaddress c) with putty & hostname d) with putty & IPaddress if yes to b and

Re: can't connect with putty

2005-07-31 Thread Adam Aube
Cyprien wrote: > On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 06:54:49AM +, Daniel McBrearty wrote: >> > this is confusing message out of context but from what I remember: >> > >> > a) can you connect with ssh hostname >> > b) with ssh IPaddress >> > c) with putty & hostname >> > d) with putty & IPaddress >> > >>

Re: can't connect with putty

2005-07-31 Thread Cyprien
On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 06:54:49AM +, Daniel McBrearty wrote: > > this is confusing message out of context but from what I remember: > > > > a) can you connect with ssh hostname > > b) with ssh IPaddress > > c) with putty & hostname > > d) with putty & IPaddress > > > > if yes to b and d, but

Re: can't connect with putty

2005-07-31 Thread Daniel McBrearty
> this is confusing message out of context but from what I remember: > > a) can you connect with ssh hostname > b) with ssh IPaddress > c) with putty & hostname > d) with putty & IPaddress > > if yes to b and d, but not to a and c, then it's a DNS thing. > > if yes to a and b, but no to c or d,

Re: can't connect with putty

2005-07-29 Thread michael
On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 09:20 +, Daniel McBrearty wrote: > It seems I was mistaken. I still have the problem. This is very annoying and I > wish I knew what caused it. For now I will have to connect by IP address. > this is confusing message out of context but from what I remember: a) can you

Re: can't connect with putty

2005-07-29 Thread Daniel McBrearty
It seems I was mistaken. I still have the problem. This is very annoying and I wish I knew what caused it. For now I will have to connect by IP address. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: can't connect with putty

2005-07-28 Thread Daniel . Mcbrearty
Actually I started off with ssh, but couldn't connect - the providers instructions referred to putty so I installed that and tried it to make sure I was using the correct u/p combination. In fact it turned out to be a DNS-appearing problem which has been bugging me for a while. ssh worked when

Re: can't connect with putty

2005-07-27 Thread michael
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 22:45 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Daniel McBrearty: > > > > I instaled putty with apt-get on the deb box - it comes up but when I > > try to connect to anyone it never gets there. I just get an empty > > terminal window. It never comes up with the warning that you get on >

Re: can't connect with putty

2005-07-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
Daniel McBrearty: > > I instaled putty with apt-get on the deb box - it comes up but when I > try to connect to anyone it never gets there. I just get an empty > terminal window. It never comes up with the warning that you get on > first connection; nothing. No warnings or errors either. I've trie

can't connect with putty

2005-07-27 Thread Daniel McBrearty
Hi I'm using a debian box with a 2.4.27 kernel. I just picked up a hosting a/c and want to connect with putty. I can do it fine from my win32 box using putty following the instructions given by the host provider and also to some other remote machines where I have an a/c. I instaled putty with a