Unable to connect to a Linux Linode ansible type vm
Hello I created one of Network Chucks vms in Linode using Centos as the OS but I cannot connect to the instance using SSH despite entering the IP address my username and password in Putty and Super Putty
I just get a network timeout. Can anyone assist please?
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CassandraD
Linode Staff
My first thought was that you used a configuration file that doesn't allow root or password logins for SSH. You can check out this section of our guide to Using Ansible to Automate Configuration of Web Server, Log Server, and Database Server for an example of what this type of configuration may have looked like.
Otherwise, I'd recommend treating this like any other SSH issue and follow our guide to Troubleshooting SSH.
You can log in Using the Lish Console to make sure that your ssh configurations allows for logins under whatever scenario applies (using root, with password, etc.,) and that ssh is running.
Timing out could also indicate an issue with a firewall or general networking, so I'd also recommend these guides as well:
If those general troubleshooting steps don't help, it may be useful to share any guide you used or what videos you watched from Network Chuck and provide more information about which server you can't access, the control node or a server you made after that was set up.