On Tuesday 28 September 2004 20:50, Stuart Sears wrote: > 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. This is common on every system I have ever loaded with FC2 your iptables are blocking the connection you can do one of the following: iptables -A INPUT -m tcp -p tcp --dport 22 - j ACCEPT or plonk this line into your /etc/sysconfig/iptables -A INPUT -m tcp -p tcp --dport 22 - j ACCEPT should work, Oh yes I also took out the REDHAT firewall entrie as I dont have a clue as to how to work with it. Chadley Wilson Redhat Certified Technician Cert Number: 603004708291270 Pinnacle Micro Manufacturers of Proline Computers ==================================== Exercise freedom, Use LINUX =====================================