Re: 2010.2 networking issue

On 11/27/2011 08:11 PM, David Guntner wrote:
> Did a clean install of the 2010 Spring install on a friend's computer,
> but now having an really weird networking issue.  It won't allow an
> incoming ssh connection.  From a shell prompt, I can do a "ssh
> 127.0.0.1" and "ssh 192.168.1.101" (for the internal net IP address) and
> it works just fine.  However, trying to ssh to the machine from another
> machine on the local home network goes nowhere - it just times out.  I
> can ping the windows box on the network from the Linux box, but can't go
> the other direction - again, doing a ping of the Linux box from the
> Windows box just times out.
> 
> What the heck am I missing?  It's clearly able to talk out to the
> network, but it doesn't seem to be too interested in listening to the
> network.  Both /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny are empty, so it's
> not that getting in the way....
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
>                     --Dave
> 
Is the firewall turned on by default?

Phil