Re: Can't connect to workstation using ssh from a remote machine

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

Gary Dale wrote: 
> I'm running Bullseye on an AMD64 system on my workstation and Buster on an
> AMD64 system on my server.
> 
> I'm trying to establish an ssh connection from my server to my workstation
> to facilitate a nightly pull backup of /home run by the server. However the
> ssh request times out.
> 
> I can connect via ssh to my workstation locally, just not from other
> machines *i.e. ssh <workstation> works when run on <workstation> but not
> when run on a different computer).
> 
> Debugging output isn't any help. It shows the connection being attempted
> then eventually timing out.

Assuming their names are workstation and server, give us the
output of the following. Use ctrl-c to cancel things as
necessary.

>From workstation:
$ ping -c3 server
$ telnet server 22

>From server:
$ ping -c3 workstation
$ telnet workstation 22

-dsr-