On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Nick wrote: > ************* Original Msg. ************ > Can you ping the linux box from the windows box? > Can you ping the windows box from the linux box? > Can you ssh to localhost on the linux box? > > Yes, I can ping both ways. I can also ssh to localhost on the Linux > machine. Are you doing ssh as root? Are you using a username? Show us your exact command line (without a password if that's in the command line!). SSH can have root access disallowed so that you have to login to a different account, then 'su' or 'sudo' to root. Mike