ssh: connect to host port 22: Connection refused

[Qichen]

I encountered titled error when trying to ssh into my unraid server from another computer. I verified that all the ssh keys are intact, as suggested in the post below. I am very new to the Unraid/unix world so that I'm not sure what the troubleshooting steps should be. Any helps and suggestions would be appreciated! 

 

[JorgeB]

Start by posting the output of:

ssh -v Target_Host

 

[Qichen]

Running on cmd, I got the following output

OpenSSH_for_Windows_8.1p1, LibreSSL 3.0.2                                                                               
debug1: Reading configuration data C:\\Users\\qcx/.ssh/config                                                           
debug1: Connecting to 192.168.1.207 [192.168.1.207] port 22.                                                            
debug1: connect to address 192.168.1.207 port 22: Connection refused                                                    
ssh: connect to host 192.168.1.207 port 22: Connection refused 

If instead running in wsl, I just got the single line of output that is the following

OpenSSH_8.2p1 Ubuntu-4ubuntu0.5, OpenSSL 1.1.1f  31 Mar 2020

 

[JorgeB]

9 minutes ago, Qichen said:

Connection refused 

I believe it's not even trying to check the keys, does root have a password?

[Qichen]

26 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

I believe it's not even trying to check the keys, does root have a password?

It does. SSH doesn’t even prompt me for the password before it terminates the process and prints out connection failed so I wasn’t able to even put in the password. 

[JorgeB]

Have you done any changes to ssh behavior, like adding something to the go filed? Or post the diagnostics.

[Qichen]

I don't think I changed any ssh behavior. I'm also not sure which part of the diagnostics would be helpful so I just attached the entired zip. 

host-diagnostics-20220625-0512.zip

[jmztaylor]

2 hours ago, Qichen said:

I don't think I changed any ssh behavior. I'm also not sure which part of the diagnostics would be helpful so I just attached the entired zip. 

host-diagnostics-20220625-0512.zip 94.77 kB · 0 downloads

If I am looking at this right SSH access is turned of in settings->management access

[itimpi]

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3 hours ago, Qichen said:

I'm also not sure which part of the diagnostics would be helpful so I just attached the entired zip

Always include the whole zip as it is often not clear in advance which bits will include the key information for diagnosing a particular problem.

[Qichen]

5 hours ago, jmztaylor said:

If I am looking at this right SSH access is turned of in settings->management access

I totally didn'ty realize its a simple settings element and is configured to be off out of the box. Thank you so much for the help!

[NotHere]

This thread was useful to me as well. I never turned on SSH as I thought it was automatically ON. Thanks for the information.