Can't connect to my SSH server?

Question

I tried for the first time to setup a ssh server following these steps on the server machine:

Following this article, I installed sudo apt install openssh-server
Following this question, I edited /etc/ssh/sshd_config and appended
```
Port 22
PermitRootLogin no
AllowUsers usr
```
Following the first article, sudo systemctl restart sshd.service
Following this article I found my external IP address ip-add using this
I tried to ssh from my server machine to the machine itself with ssh usr@ip-add

However I got this error message:

ssh: connect to host ip-add port 22: Connection refused

are able to ping IP address of the machine you would like to connect ? — rɑːdʒɑ, Mar 8 '17 at 10:32
@Ten-Coin thanks to your comment, actually I couldn't ping it from my remote machine! But now another error came up, please look at the updated question — user6321, Mar 8 '17 at 10:37
execute ps -A | grep sshd and check that sshd is running — Yaron, Mar 8 '17 at 10:39
Are you trying this with an external internet IP address? If so you're probably not reaching your remote machine, as you'll be bouncing off of the router. If this is the case you should look at port forwarding options. — Arronical, Mar 8 '17 at 10:43

Yaron · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-08 12:11:04Z

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I solved the problem by creating a port-forwarding on my router.

Yaron

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answered Mar 8 '17 at 11:25

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You should accept your own answer to the question by clicking on the grey tick/check on the left hand side of the answer. – Arronical Mar 8 '17 at 12:11
@Arronical I can't before 2 days – user6321 Mar 8 '17 at 12:21
You might add some info to the question to indicate your problem was related to accessing your server remotely through a router. – jtessier72 Jun 19 '20 at 16:14

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