[ThunderPoit]

I have a hobby server running Ubuntu 7.1. I can use SSH to connect to it just fine from my powerbook, but i cannot connect from my powermac. I type ssh dave@192.168.1.254 in terminal, and the system just sits there for about 30 seconds, then returns this:
Wrie failed: Broken pipe
Any ideas why i can connect from one machine but not another? Any log files from either machine that i should be looking at?

[Brad]

Can you ping that IP from your Power Mac?

Also, try ssh -v dave@192.168.1.254 (-v is for verbose mode) to get some more details about the connection attempt and failure. Share the results in a [code][/code] block.

[ThunderPoit]

i can ping it
heres what got with the -v flag:

PMac:~ dave$ ssh -v dave@192.168.1.254OpenSSH_4.7p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7l 28 Sep 2006debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_configdebug1: Connecting to 192.168.1.254 [192.168.1.254] port 22.debug1: Connection established.debug1: identity file /Users/dave/.ssh/identity type -1debug1: identity file /Users/dave/.ssh/id_rsa type -1debug1: identity file /Users/dave/.ssh/id_dsa type -1debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_4.6p1 Debian-5build1debug1: match: OpenSSH_4.6p1 Debian-5build1 pat OpenSSH*debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.7debug1: An invalid name was suppliedCannot determine realm for numeric host addressdebug1: An invalid name was suppliedCannot determine realm for numeric host addressdebug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sentdebug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT receiveddebug1: kex: server->client aes128-cbc hmac-md5 nonedebug1: kex: client->server aes128-cbc hmac-md5 nonedebug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST(1024<1024<8192) sentdebug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUPWrite failed: Broken pipePMac:~ dave$

[Brad]

Hmmm... it seems there are other Ubuntu users with similar issues out there. Try this idea: on the server, edit your /etc/ssh/ssh_config file to set GSSAPIAuthentication to "no" instead of "yes". Then restart sshd and try connecting again.

[ThunderPoit]

the who and the what now?
Im just a little confused as to why one machine can connect to it while another cannot.

I'll go edit the file, but how do i restart sshd?

[Brad]

You're running a Linux server and you don't know how to restart the daemons?

It varies by distro, but this probably works:

sudo /etc/init.d/sshd restart

[ThunderPoit]

its a hobby server, im slowly learning
i rebooted it before i saw your post, i assume that will accomplish the same thing, correct?

[ThunderPoit]

still no go after the reboot. i think that the sshd is working just fine since i have never had a problem connecting with my powerbook, so wouldnt the problem be with my pmac and not the server?