A different ssh issue

James R. Van Zandt jrvz at comcast.net
Sat Feb 25 10:17:41 EST 2006


Bill Horne <bill at horne.net> writes:
>
> My ssh connection works OK from a W2K Putty client to my OpenSSH
> server when I'm using my LAN, but when I ...  attempt to access the
> server via dialup, I get ... "Network error: connection timed out".

I assume that if you are using a router, you have configured it to
forward port 22 to your OpenSSH server :-)

I also assume you have tried the -v switch - at what point does the
connection fail?  (I'm not sure the putty client has the -v switch -
if not, you could install the cygwin ssh client.)

           - Jim Van Zandt



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