[EdLUG] Problem with ssh

[Alistair Boak]

Hi everyone,

I’ve been playing with an old Seagate GoFlex Net that I have on my internal network.  

I installed Archlinux/arm on a USB thumb drive, and it was working fine until I had the brilliant idea (NOT) to see what would happen if I switched the drive and used a live Ubuntu distro on it and tried to ssh into that! (I’m wearing ear-muffs so I cant hear the laughter).  

Anyway, I can now no longer ssh into the original Archlinux/arm USB drive, there is a reset button on the Seagate net which I had used on the Archlinux/arm and it reset and continued working, however, it doesn’t do anything since I plugged in the other drive.  

I can still see the Net it as I can ping it, and when I ssh I get a ‘connection refused’ response.  I read some of the ssh man pages and it said to try the debug option -v and -vv and -vvv and the output is shown below:

ssh: connect to host 192.168.1.179 port 22: Connection refused
bash-3.2# ssh -v alarm at 192.168.1.179
OpenSSH_7.8p1, LibreSSL 2.6.2
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 48: Applying options for *
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 52: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to 192.168.1.179 [192.168.1.179] port 22.
debug1: connect to address 192.168.1.179 port 22: Connection refused
ssh: connect to host 192.168.1.179 port 22: Connection refused
bash-3.2# ssh -vv alarm at 192.168.1.179
OpenSSH_7.8p1, LibreSSL 2.6.2
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 48: Applying options for *
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 52: Applying options for *
debug2: resolve_canonicalize: hostname 192.168.1.179 is address
debug2: ssh_connect_direct
debug1: Connecting to 192.168.1.179 [192.168.1.179] port 22.
debug1: connect to address 192.168.1.179 port 22: Connection refused
ssh: connect to host 192.168.1.179 port 22: Connection refused
bash-3.2# ssh -vvv alarm at 192.168.1.179
OpenSSH_7.8p1, LibreSSL 2.6.2
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 48: Applying options for *
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 52: Applying options for *
debug2: resolve_canonicalize: hostname 192.168.1.179 is address
debug2: ssh_connect_direct
debug1: Connecting to 192.168.1.179 [192.168.1.179] port 22.
debug1: connect to address 192.168.1.179 port 22: Connection refused
ssh: connect to host 192.168.1.179 port 22: Connection refused
bash-3.2# 

Line 48 and 52 in /etc/ssh/ssh_config both have "Host *” written in them.

Apologies for the very long email but any help would be gratefully received - or do I just bin the device? (Joking)

Cheers 

Alistair B
(One of several on this list) 
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