I am trying to use PuTTy in Windows to connect to my Backtrack box that I got running in Oracle VM Virtual Box. However when I try to connect with the IP that is given to the box I get an error.


Any ideas on what I should try to get it to work?

* started the SSH server in Backtrack, still same error.

As far as I am aware the firewall is disabled in Backtrack by default.

I will look into the other two thing.

Most likely that the SSH Daemon is not running

If it is, you're likely to have a networking issue

What network adapter type have you given it? Host only? Bridged etc

I did create a certificate and started the SSH server (I should had mentioned that, sorry).

I am pretty new to it all and am trying to learn from scratch you could say. Sad to say knowing that, that I have no idea how to check up what you just asked. If there is a default I left it at that.

I think the default is to nat the box. What you need to do, is shut the backtrack box down. Go into the window where you would select and start it. You'll want to go to the settings > network tab, and change that to bridge, and then assign it to one of the ethernet cards you want to use (one of the actual ones on the windows box).

Might have some of the steps above wrong, going from memory without access to VirtualBox from where I am.

But you'll have to shut the BT box down to make the changes.

Options are NAT, Bridged, HOSTonly (or something like that). There may be a disabled option too... but as I said, I can't remember exactly and can't check.

The documents used to be pretty good at that back before it was Oracle's, I don't know how they are now.

While I used network instead of networking as it should be:

service networking start is pretty much the same thing as /etc/init.d/networking start and that is definitely not the same thing as:

ifconfig eth0 up && dhclient3 eth0

which I prefer since I do not need wicd started nor an attempt to bring up the entire plethora of network interfaces possible with bringing up networking as a whole (easier than modifying the interfaces since I change interfaces a lot depending on what I am doing).