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Can not connect to linux via FileZilla

Posted on May 3, 2014

Now i can successfully connect the vps via putty: ssh root@ip

But i can not connect it via FileZilla sftp mode, the log shows:

“Error: Connection timed out” “Error: Could not connect to server”

so what should i do?



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Did you make sure that you selected sftp and not ftp? If you changed your ssh port number, make sure you changed from default 22 in filezilla. <br> <br>

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