# SSH failure on Windows and Linux

**URL:** https://community.openconversational.ai/t/ssh-failure-on-windows-and-linux/12439
**Category:** Archive - Former Random Mycroft Category
**Created:** [August 24, 2022, 12:04pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/ssh-failure-on-windows-and-linux/12439 "2022-08-24T12:04:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![phildhall](https://community.openconversational.ai/user_avatar/community.openconversational.ai/phildhall/32/3833_2.png) [@phildhall](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/phildhall)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2022, 12:04pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/ssh-failure-on-windows-and-linux/12439/1 "2022-08-24T12:04:10Z")

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I’m getting a `Permission denied (public key).` on Linux and a `Connection timed out` on Windows.

I can ping the unit which is connected on hard wire to my local network.

This is the first connection, there has never been an SSH to this Mark 2 dev unit yet.

Help much appreciated 🙂

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### Author: ![mike99mac](https://community.openconversational.ai/user_avatar/community.openconversational.ai/mike99mac/32/2016_2.png) [@mike99mac](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/mike99mac)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2022, 11:39am UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/ssh-failure-on-windows-and-linux/12439/2 "2022-08-26T11:39:29Z")

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@phildhall, maybe sshd is listening on port 8181, not the standard 22?

See: [What is port 8181 for?!](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/what-is-port-8181-for/8200)

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-Mike Mac
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### Author: ![phildhall](https://community.openconversational.ai/user_avatar/community.openconversational.ai/phildhall/32/3833_2.png) [@phildhall](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/phildhall)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2022, 12:56pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/ssh-failure-on-windows-and-linux/12439/3 "2022-08-26T12:56:01Z")

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K - tried that, same issue. Was working on 8222 as per instructions, definitely not on 22.

From the -v it looked like the 8222 was getting to the mycroft, but not finding the public key. So my current thought is that it’s not been delivered.

`$ ssh -v -p 8222 mycroft@$IPADDYHERE`

`debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config`

But I’ve got a keyboard and monitor to hand so will try and get into the CLI directly when I get back to keyboard later.

Sigh - so wanting to crack on, but time and tide and all that 🙂

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### Author: ![phildhall](https://community.openconversational.ai/user_avatar/community.openconversational.ai/phildhall/32/3833_2.png) [@phildhall](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/phildhall)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2022, 8:21am UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/ssh-failure-on-windows-and-linux/12439/4 "2022-08-31T08:21:27Z")

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**UPDATE**

This seems to have solved itself, in as much as I can now get into the `.venv` might have been a back end issue, unknown.