RE: New to SSH ... help

Two things come to mind -- one is, can you get in locally on your work
network with SSH? To make sure, go to the Ubuntu machine and try to login
directly with ssh -- do this: # ssh -l username localhost

If that works, then try: # ssh -l username username-desktop (I am assuming
"username-desktop" is the machine name for the Ubuntu system)

If both of these work, then try your iPad with ISSH on the SAME local area
network as the Linux machine (i.e. inside the network firewall/router).

If it's still working at this point, but you can't get in over the net, then
you need to check with your network admin and make sure that port forwarding
is turned on in the router for port 22. He/she may tell you to use a
different port, sometimes they are reassigned to a non-standard port number.

You also, of course, need to turn on port forwarding in your OWN router for
the same port number, 22 is standard, or whatever is being used on the
remote lan, if not 22.

If one of the first three steps fails, there is something wrong with the ssh
config file on the Ubuntu machine.

-----Original Message-----
From: issh@googlegroups.com [mailto:issh@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
ubuntnoob
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 10:52 AM
To: iSSH/iX11
Subject: New to SSH ... help

I need to remotely gain access to the terminal on my system to launch
specific jobs. I am a complete noob when it comes to SSH and am trying
to determine why I can not get iSSH to work from my ipad. My SSH
server is set-up on an Ubuntu Lucid Lynx system. Default port is 22.

I honestly don't know where to begin.

This is what I enter into the ISSH configuration dialogue:

Description: ipad
Host: IP address of Ubuntu system running SSH
Port: 22
Login: username@username-desktop

The ipad is on a local wireless connection. The Ubuntu system is on my
works network and I really have no idea what I am doing.

Can you recommend some way for me to diagnose my set-up?

Thanks in advance.

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