Can't connect via SSH from mac os X Systems

keg · n00b Joined: 28 Feb 2003 Posts: 13 Location: Denver,Co

Recently setup a gentoo box and I can't seem to connect to it from Mac os X systems using ssh. Tried 2 separate mac systems and I'm able to connect to other gentoo boxs, any thoughts?
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jmusits · Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 11:59 pm Post subject:

did you setup a firewall? if so is port 22 open?

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OldTango · l33t Joined: 21 Feb 2004 Posts: 718

Also make sure sshd is running on the machine you wish to connect to.

keg · n00b Joined: 28 Feb 2003 Posts: 13 Location: Denver,Co

No firewall setup and sshd is running. To connect I have to ssh into another gentoo machine and then connect to the system that is giving me problems.
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OldTango · l33t Joined: 21 Feb 2004 Posts: 718

Are you saying that you can connect from a gentoo box to another gentoo box with ssh, but you can't connect to to a gentoo box from a MAC OS/X box? I am sorry but I am not sure what you are saying here. What type of error are you getting when you try to connect?

keg · n00b Joined: 28 Feb 2003 Posts: 13 Location: Denver,Co

Thanks for the replies. Sorry, I should have been more clear.

I cannot connect to a recent gentoo installed machine(lets call it systemX) from mac systems using SSH.

Connecting directly from mac systems to systemX doesn't work, no error, the prompt will sit there after connecting and eventually systemX will time out the connection.

Connecting to systemX using SSH from any linux or win32 machine is fine.

What I've had to do is connect to another linux box via ssh and then connect to systemX.

I know it's not the terminal app in osX because other osX applications that use SSH(fugu, iterm) aren't able to connect either.

It's not unique to one mac because I've tried several different mac systems, all not able to connect.

I can connect to other gentoo systems from macs, so it's not something unique to gentoo.

Whats troubling is that I haven't gotten any error messages, so I don't know where to begin trying to fix this. My only guess is that I've done something weird during the install of systemX.
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OldTango · l33t Joined: 21 Feb 2004 Posts: 718

Well ya made me think. I hadn't tried to connect to any of my gentoo boxs form my Mac. So I gave it a try and it worked just as I would expect it to. I used the Mac OS/X Terminal program. (BTW I am using Tiger)

Are you trying to connect from inside out outside of the network where SystemX is located. A little more info may be necessary. My set up allows me to connect to any machine inside my network via ssh as long as ssh is running on the machine I wish to connect to. However from outside (internet) I can only ssh to my primary server via ssh. If the Mac isn't spitting out errors and is timing out it almost sounds like it is having trouble with Authentication protocols. I usually only get that kind of response when I attempt to connect to a stelthed port.

What you are discribing dosen't really make sense, because if you can connect to systemX from some other machine but not the Mac, but the Mac can connect to that other machine. It should be able to connect to systemX as well. I will have to do a little more digging. Have you tried to use systemX to ssh to the Mac?