On Mon 27 September 2004 18:50, Gerhard Magnus wrote: > Greetings! > > When I try to connect from a remote machine to my one at home > using ssh I get the error message "ssh: connect to host 64.146.133.1 port > 22: Connection refused" -- but using ssh in the outgoing direction (i.e. > from home to the remote location) works fine. Any suggestions as to how > to troubleshoot this? nmap 64.146.133.1 Starting nmap 3.50 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2004-09-28 19:43 BST Interesting ports on 64-146-133-1-dslclient.saw.net (64.146.133.1): (The 1650 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) PORT STATE SERVICE 23/tcp open telnet 135/tcp filtered msrpc 137/tcp filtered netbios-ns 138/tcp filtered netbios-dgm 139/tcp filtered netbios-ssn 445/tcp filtered microsoft-ds 2049/tcp filtered nfs 12345/tcp filtered NetBus 31337/tcp filtered Elite no ssh port seen there - this suggests a few things: 1) you don't have sshd running: service sshd status will tell you if this si the case chkconfig sshd on service sshd start will make sure that it is on in future 2) your ISP has closed the ports at their end. talk to _them_ about this. you do have the telnet port open (but someone else has already tried this one). Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCE, RHCX Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur