I've just (re)installed ubuntu 11.10 on my main pc, and the connection times out every time I try to ssh connect to my laptop (over the local network) to retrieve the files I backed up there. The connection times out every time I try to connect. I can establish a connection in the other direction without issue. Here's the verbose output I get when I try to connect: ovangle@ruby-EP43-DS3:~$ ssh -v [email protected] OpenSSH_5.8p1 Debian-7ubuntu1, OpenSSL 1.0.0e 6 Sep 2011 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: Applying options for * debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0 debug1: Connecting to 10.1.1.4 [10.1.1.4] port 22. debug1: connect to address 10.1.1.4 port 22: Connection timed out ssh: connect to host 10.1.1.4 port 22: Connection timed out ssh is installed on both machines, and I've tried deleting '~/.ssh/known_hosts' on both machines, still nada. I've changed the sshd logging on the laptop to VERBOSE and restarted the daemon (because I wasn't getting any relevant syslog entries otherwise), and this is the log for the most recent connection attempt. EDIT: posted wrong logs last time. They just showed that there was a connection received, they weren't actually the sshd logs (which were in auth.log as I recently discovered). Unfortunately, that log is filling up with extremely weird error messages and it gives me no information about the connection. Nov 8 16:02:18 ovangle-A6Rp pkexec: pam_unix(polkit-1:session): session opened for user root by (uid=1000) Nov 8 16:02:18 ovangle-A6Rp pkexec: pam_ck_connector(polkit-1:session): cannot determine display-device Nov 8 16:02:18 ovangle-A6Rp pkexec[6270]: ovangle: Executing command [USER=root] [TTY=unknown] [CWD=/home/ovangle] [COMMAND=/usr/sbin/gnome-power-backlight-helper --set-brightness 2] Nov 8 16:02:19 ovangle-A6Rp pkexec: pam_unix(polkit-1:session): session opened for user root by (uid=1000) Nov 8 16:02:19 ovangle-A6Rp pkexec: pam_ck_connector(polkit-1:session): cannot determine display-device Nov 8 16:02:19 ovangle-A6Rp pkexec[6273]: ovangle: Executing command [USER=root] [TTY=unknown] [CWD=/home/ovangle] [COMMAND=/usr/sbin/gnome-power-backlight-helper --set-brightness 7]