Hello all,
I am trying to setup the ability to remotely connect to my three ESXi servers from my office over the internet, i'll outline what I have done so far and see which cleverclogs can give me the answer, which I have already googled to no avail.
Installed putty onto a PC on the same LAN as the ESXi hosts
Gone into the "security profile" on each of my ESXi hosts and enabled SSH.
From my Local PC, connected into my ESXi hosts using putty on port 22 using root and my root password, this works perfectly and I can remotely manage my server using SSH.
Next I have forwarded port 22 on my Draytek 2860 router to the IP address of the ESXi host on the correct port which has the management network on.
Tested the connection using command prompt then "telnet EXTERNAL IP 22"
This connects and echo's "SSH-2.0-dropbear_0.49"
I then open Putty from the same PC which I used telnet from, connect to the External IP which I used to forward port 22 through to my ESXi host.
I get to the username prompt, I enter "root"
It then echo's "root@EXTERNALIP's password" so I enter the same password I used locally before.
I get access denied.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Mark
