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Putty error going to EXSi

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lone wolf

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I am almost finished moving over my servers from vmserver 2 to esxi. I am having one issue though. Even though SSH is enabled in ESXi, I can not get putty to connect from my Windows XP machine. I am getting an error that states: Key does not match required signature. I have triple checked both on the console and in vsphere center, and it shows that ssh is enabled.

I can ssh into the box using Winscp, but moving a 200gb exchange server vmdk is taking over 14 hours, even with a gbit connection. I have ran from the cmd line putty.exe -cleanup but that doesn't help at all.

any suggestions?
 
Ever SSH'd in to a host on that IP before? Sounds like it's got an old key stored for that IP/host.
 
lone wolf said:
No, it is a clean IP that I chose. Never used by a server.
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He is talking about on your machine, ssh keys are local to your computer. What os are you running ?

( on your machine you are ssh'ing from...)
 
Im running Win XP Pro on my machine. I now have two machines that are running ESXi, both with new IP address', also another tech can't get into them from his workstation either, also running XP Pro
 
Yes I enabled the service. I can ssh into it from another linux machine. I can use Winscp to get to it also. I have tried other workstations that also run windows xp pro, but no joy. I just put together a linux box to act as a go between and also be a file server. Its not much but hey I can get to it.

I now run 4 ESXi boxes running two exchange servers, my DC's and soon a SQL box. I am loving the ease that 4.1 has over the VMware servers.
 
Have you tried clearing out your PuTTY info by running the "putty -cleanup" command from the directory your putty.exe utility is stored in?

Also, can you use the telnet client instead to check if the SSH service is listening on the host?

e.g., "telnet <ip address of host> 22"

If you get a black screen, then awesome. Else, bummer.
 
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