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Old 08-26-2007
Randy Yates
 
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Default Re: Cannot connect to Fedora 7 (VMWare Guest) SSH server

Neil Jones <castellan2004-cnews@yahoo.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I have installed Fedora 7 as a VMWare guest OS. The host OS is
> Vista. I cannot connect to the SSH server on Fedora to exchange files
> between guest and host. I have disabled SELinux, firewall etc on
> Fedora. Yet I cannot connect to the guest OS. The guest OS is using
> bridged networking. The Host OS and Guest OS can ping each other.
> The host OS (Vista) can access the web server on the guest OS
> (Fedora7) fine.
>
> The windows SSH client is getting the initial greeting message upon
> connection and that is where it stops. Fedora SSH server does not
> respond beyond that greeting.
>
> How can I connect to the SSH server on Fedora 7?
>
> Any help appreciated. Thank you in advance.


Hi Neil,

Try running sshd using the -d option and then check the output.
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