From: Sambath Kumar Moorthy Date: 2012-11-22T21:33:13+09:00 Subject: Errno::ECONNREFUSED in net/ssh Hi, I need to automate the ssh connection for that i wrote the small snippet but the error shows its not able to communicate with the remote machine using the below code. Please provide the solution. ------------ Note: 1) Telnet service is not available on the remote machine 2) I am able to execute the command manually using Putty ------------ ###------------ ##My code: ###----------- #!/usr/bin/ruby require 'rubygems' require 'net/ssh' def SetSsh(command) Net::SSH.start($ipdddr, "username", :password => "password") do|ssh| result = ssh.exec!(command) puts "result = #{result}" end end Main program execution SetSsh("ls -l") ##########-End of File. ---------------------------- Error Which i received: C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/net-ssh-2.6.1/lib/net/ssh/transport/session.rb:67:in initialize': No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. - connect(2) (Errno::ECONNREFUSED) from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/net-ssh-2.6.1/lib/net/ssh/transport/session.rb:67:inopen' from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/net-ssh-2.6.1/lib/net/ssh/transport/session.rb:67:in initialize' from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:53:intimeout' from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:101:in timeout' from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/net-ssh-2.6.1/lib/net/ssh/transport/session.rb:67:ininitialize' from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/net-ssh-2.6.1/lib/net/ssh.rb:186:in new' from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/net-ssh-2.6.1/lib/net/ssh.rb:186:instart' from File_name.rb:49:in `SetSsh' from File_name.rb:338 ------------------------------ -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.