On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Mirko Vukovic <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am having intermittent trouble logging into a remote linux machine
> depending on the machine from which I am trying to log from.  I am
> logging in from windows XP machines with cygwin and cygwin's ssh.
>
> - If I try to log in from my windows desktop to the rhel5 that sits
> next to it, things work
> - If I try to log in from my windows laptop from home, to the rhel5, I
> get `Permission denied, please try again'
> - If I first log into my windows desktop from my laptop, I can then
> log into the rhel5 from my desktop.
>
> It seems to me that the rhel5 is refusing the connection from my
> laptop because of the type of network connection or latency (pinging
> from laptop to rhel5 is 200-300 msec and from windows desktop to rhel5
> is < 5 msec), or some other such issue.  But does that make sense?

Hmmm I don't know of any rule.. or at least I have not been bitten by
it I regularly use ssh for long distance laggy connections.

The error doesn't sound like one RHEL-5 would send back so I am not
sure what is causing that. The main things that would be stopping it
are:
1) Company firewall.
2) IPtables only allowing local network connections
3) tcp_wrappers only allowing local network connections
4) some routing issue... where outside of the network you aren't
really getting to your desktop.

> The frustrating thing is that a few months ago (when I last attempted
> this) I was able to log in remotely from my laptop, even from across
> the pacific.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mirko
>
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