Comments on: Connect to your home PC from anywhere – free.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:59:16 +0000

click on the Authentication tab, click on the REQUIRED radio buttion on the Password authentication row. Berry’s pwd prob will go away. Worked for me.

By: govind

govind — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:26:37 +0000

I set everything up as specified except for 1 thing.
Real VNC server for windows, even the personal edition is not free. So I have used TightVNC server on my PC at home.

On my router I port forwarded both 443 and 5900 to the PC that the SSH and VNC are running on. Didn’t know from the tutorial if I needed to do it for VNC service.

At work I installed putty and configured as you said.
I ran a webserver at home and tested the connection from work, so I know the IP address I am using for my home PC is correct.

But when I click Open on my putty client, I get “connection refused”

Any ideas?
is it that my workplace proxy is not allowing outgoing connections?
I notice that the putty client has a place to put in the proxy server information but when I do that and click open I just get a black window with a green cursor on the top left. no prompt to enter the ssh credentials.

Any idea?

By: NaRz

NaRz — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:17:12 +0000

So is this thing still active?

I managed to successfully SSH home using the NT authentication (Using windows user/pass).

But when i attempt to log on using the SHA1 stored password with my own username, just doesnt want to accept it!

what ive checked-
-rentered and renewed passwords
-ensured all passwords were lowercase
-attempted simple passwords
-ensured caps lock was off

Any other suggestions?

By: salo

salo — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:34:25 +0000

i did port forward, i went over the tutorial at least 50 times, when i try to connect with putty it says – network error : connection timed out

By: Alex Bailey

Alex Bailey — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 04:41:05 +0000

[quote comment="14890"]ok, did everything by the instructions, came to school and tryed to connect to my home pc, and in putty it sais – network eror: connection timed out.
if i try it using only vnc, the same thing happens, i come back home and everything is runnig and working[/quote]

Almost certainly because you didn’t port forward.

By: salo

salo — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:38:30 +0000

ok, did everything by the instructions, came to school and tryed to connect to my home pc, and in putty it sais – network eror: connection timed out.
if i try it using only vnc, the same thing happens, i come back home and everything is runnig and working

By: Marilyn

Marilyn — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:15:25 +0000

Since installing Windows 7.0, I have been unable to get bigfishgames.com, to accept my password. The cursor will not move, type, when I type in the password. I have had the password reset numerous times, turned off the firewall for 15 minutes, during this process, and made sure that port 443 and 80 were enabled. What else can I do? Marilyn

By: Alex Bailey

Alex Bailey — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 04:21:54 +0000

[quote comment="7123"]I think I figured out your problem. You probably typed in the wrong thing when you entered the mkgroup and mkpasswd commands. I did this myself…..for the mkpasswd I was typing mkgroup -l > ..\etc\mkpasswd instead of mkpasswd -l > ..\etc\mkpasswd. A simple mistake that had me backtracking for an hour or so. Hope this helps[/quote]

Sure you commented on the right post? :p

By: anonymous

anonymous — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 04:07:10 +0000

I think I figured out your problem. You probably typed in the wrong thing when you entered the mkgroup and mkpasswd commands. I did this myself…..for the mkpasswd I was typing mkgroup -l > ..\etc\mkpasswd instead of mkpasswd -l > ..\etc\mkpasswd. A simple mistake that had me backtracking for an hour or so. Hope this helps

By: Alex Bailey

Alex Bailey — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 20:06:23 +0000

[quote comment="6325"]PuTTy refuses to log in. Everytime I try I get access denied.[/quote]

So it’s saying you have the wrong password/user? I doubled checked the whole post, and everything I wrote should work correctly. I honestly have no idea why it would say you have the wrong password =(

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 19:45:56 +0000

PuTTy refuses to log in. Everytime I try I get access denied.

By: Alex Bailey

Alex Bailey — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:08:37 +0000

The cursor won’t move, that’s how SSH works when you type in a password.

Check if you have the right user? Might be case sensitive.

By: Berry

Berry — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:40:20 +0000

I checked the PUTTY faq, which explains why the cursor isnt moving, but it still doesnt accept my password. I’m absolutely positive that I typed it correctly in PUTTY, even if I change the password to something as simple as “123″ on the SSH server PUTTY still claims I input the wrong password.

By: Berry

Berry — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:23:56 +0000

I’ve followed your steps, but when i run Putty and try to connect to my home pc I do get the loginscreen; at which I can type the username, but I can’t input a password, the cursor doesn’t move when typing or anything. All I can do is press enter 3 times which results in disconnection.

By: Rub3X

Rub3X — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 20:05:54 +0000

Does SSH work? Does java work on your local network? Are you port forwarding? Are you sure your IP isn’t changed by the time you’re at the remote location?