Re: please help with ssh
 

telnet isnot a recognise command in win 7 cmd!

not sure what u meant with passwd user from the n900?? when i installed openssh it asked for a password, have tried with and with out the password in the feild and also with user as the username!

will have a look at the other win7 ssh client u mention!

i do have ubuntu on this laptop, im guessing its worth a try using that, so could some one do me a quick quide to setting up ssh with ubuntu?

and i do appreciate all the help given :D

Re: please help with ssh
 

The 'user' account (which is you) has no password by default, so you will not be able to login via SSH.
You need to set a password for it, by:

Open up the terminal, and as root type:
passwd user (note, passwd is not a typo).

Then you will be able to login as user, logining in as root via SSH is a bad idea.

Re: please help with ssh
 

snake:
first, check that the ssh daemon is running on your N900


$ ps ax | grep sshd

it should show someting like

897 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd

Like jd4200 and myself already suggested: give yourself a password.

$ passwd user
New pasword for user:
retype password:

(Your name on the N900 is always 'user')

Install putty, run it
It will ask for hostname or ip-address. That will be 192.168.2.2
for you (BTW: you don't have a DHCP server that can assign different IP-numbers?)

A black window will appear with 'username' (that will be user) and 'password for user' (that will be the password you assigned to user).

jd4200 and I have already said that enabling root login and logging in as root is a Bad Idea (TM). I will say it again.

paai

Re: please help with ssh
 

hay, mannaged to get a connection using putty which is cool so thanks all for that, i like the way it looks just like terminal x n the n900 :D
now i have a couple of questions, how do i transfer files using putty?

if nessacery with using putty can i login as root with sudo gain root???

cheers

Re: please help with ssh
 

You cannot transfer files using PuTTY as it just a Terminal window running on your phone. As you can access the N900 now, give WinSCP a try again.

When you login with PuTTY it asks you for a user name and password
User name:root
Password:The password you entered in the N900 when you installed OpenSSH

Re: please help with ssh
 

winSCP is still not working, im now getting invalid access to memory every time i hit login!

Re: please help with ssh
 

There is a commandline counterpart to winscp, called PSCP. Download it from the same site as putty itself.

Your problems with winscp are worrying. Are you certain there is no virus in it? Run a viruscheck on your windows PC, delete winscp and install it again.

Paai

Re: please help with ssh
 

Jon: please do not suggest to people to do ssh-logins as root. It is a major security hole.

Snake, if you changed sshd.conf to allow root logins, you'd better change it back.

Paai

Re: please help with ssh
 

Yes, that is possible and much, much safer than allowing direct root login, which, (Grin, I feel I repeat myself) should be disabled...

But I gather that you are not very experienced with Linux, so understand that being root is an excellent opportunity to shoot yourself in both feet at the same time, so avoid it as much as possible.

Paai

Re: please help with ssh
 

I was having the same problem, where winscp just shut down at every login attempt. I opened TCP 22 port in windows firewall, and then whilst logging in to winscp, chose save instead of login. It saved the connection to user@192.168.2.4 and then connected straight up with no more problems..