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ssh: connect to host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port 22: Connection refused

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Well im trying to connect to a client machine using ssh using this command

ssh root@ip-of-server

It immediately slaps me with this error

ssh: connect to host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port 22: Connection refused

Then I tried to access a local server using same command it worked.

For further experiment I tried to do

ssh [email protected]

It displayed the same error

Whats wrong here. Any suggestion

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answered 1 Year ago fatuatexen · Accepted Answer

The remote server appears to operate on a different port than the default(22). You need to specify it using ssh user@host -p port syntax. It works locally since the port is the default, which is 22. The server and local server both require a package to provide SSH server, sshd or openssh. They can be installed with:

sudo apt-get install openssh-server

or

sudo apt-get install sshd