Firewall is off. The VM ip is static ip. do i need to do anything on my windows machin ( windows 7 ).
Hi Atul,
Since you can ping here are few tips which I believe you should also try:
make sure that ssh daemon is running on your RHEL. Do something like:
$ netstat -ant | grep 22
use the above command to also check on what network your ssh daemon is listening on. 0.0.0.0 means all networks
can you ssh from other ssh clients ( bridged network )? Meaning from other systems but your windows 7 ? If yes, then the problem is with windows 7. You can try set your VM network to bridged. Or simply use some other VM as a client.
make sure that firewall is off by flushing iptables on RHEL with:
# iptables -F
on RHEL check contents of etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny[/li][li]check log files like /var/log/secure and look for some clues