Your client doesn't support SSH 2, only SSH 1. Thus it's a differant protocol and PuTTy doesn't like it. I havn't used PuTTy much so I'm not sure if you can make it do the ssh2 protocol. Brady Hegberg wrote: > > I just downloaded and installed ssh-2.3.0 on a Redhat 6.2 box. The install > seemed to go fine. I created public and private keys in the home directory > of the user I log in as and I made sure sshd is running but I can't seem to > connect to it from a windows machine. I tried using Putty and it pulls up > a window then disappears without an error message. I tried TTSSH and it > gives me this error message: "This program does not understand the > server's version of the protocol." > > I'm an ssh neophyte - can anyone give me a pointer? > > Thanks, > Brady > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Nate Sanders darkskull at IRC (newnet) mauvehead at nerp.net http://www.damnation.net ______________________________________________________________________ who | grep -i blonde | date; cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger; mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount; sleep - Unix Is Sexy.