Putty connection issue

[Diggerpuppy]

I have tried several things to fix this. I thought it was my firewall, but that didn’t fix it. Any help I’m trying to figure out why this is happening.

 

[SirDice]

Describe what does happen? What is the error you get? Different error messages have different causes, knowing what the error is gives a clue towards the solution.

 

[Diggerpuppy]

This is the only message I get

 

[SirDice]

Right. Connection refused. That's the clue. Port is closed, in most cases this typically means the service isn't running. There's no daemon (sshd(8) in this case) running that opened the port and listens for connections. Or, you are trying to connect to the wrong host or IP address.

 

[Diggerpuppy]

How do i run that.

 

[atax1a]

put sshd_enable="YES" into /etc/rc.conf and then either reboot or run /etc/rc.d/sshd start

 

[SirDice]

Login on the console of the FreeBSD host, because you can't connect to it remotely yet. As root: sysrc sshd_enable="YES", then service sshd start.

 

[SirDice]

That

And remember to login remotely with a user account. Logging in remotely with root is disabled by default. And should be kept that way.

 

[Diggerpuppy]

put sshd_enable="YES" into /etc/rc.conf and then either reboot or run /etc/rc.d/sshd start

In cmd

 

[eternal_noob]

as root:

edit /etc/rc.conf
reboot