Surprisingly (to me, anyway), the SSH daemon is off by default in CentOS; you need to 'chkconfig sshd on' and 'service sshd start' as root in order to be able to ssh in. Tony. -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of John McKelvey Sent: 01 October 2013 12:00 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] CENTOS 5 incoming SFTP Barry, I will check on firewall, though I have not deliberately activated one. This machine has run for several years without this occurance. I will check on port 22. All other machnes on the LAN are Windows. Many thanks for getting back to me. John On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 11:31 PM, Barry Brimer <lists at brimer.org> wrote: > > I have a CENTOS 5 box that can reach the internet and can ping > > to/from > all > > windows system on my home network. The catch is that I can not > > connect > to > > the box using SSH from any windows machine, though they can easily > > ping > the > > linux box and vice-versa. > > Is there a firewall running on the Linux machine, and if so, is it > allowing tcp port 22 through? Are you able to ssh from other Linux > systems on your home network (if there are any) or have you only tried > sshing from Windows systems? Is sshd running? > > Barry > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- John McKelvey 10819 Middleford Pl Ft Wayne, IN 46818 260-489-2160 jmmckel at gmail.com _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________ ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4142 / Virus Database: 3604/6709 - Release Date: 09/29/13 ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________