WinSCP connect to Ubuntu. Access Denied

Question

I installed Ubuntu13_desktop in VMware(VMware® Workstation 7.1.6) based with Windows 7. Now I want to connect to Ubuntu from Windows 7. Set the WMware as Host-only. Installed WinSCP in Windows, configured

protocol: SFTP;
Host name: ubuntu;
Port: 22;
UserName: oracle;
Password: ***.

Clicked Login, it showed

Searching for host...
Connection to host...
Authenticating...
Using username "oracle"
Authenticating with pre-entered password.
Access denied.
Access denied.

I can succeed to ping Ubuntu by cmd.

Can anyone help me to let me access Ubuntu by WinSCP? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Well the port 22 is for SSH service. So you can probably try installing openssh-server in your ubuntu by typing

sudo apt-get install openssh-server

and then try connecting with the following details:

protocol: SSH

hostname: [IP Address of the computer]

port: 22

username: [username]

password: [password]

Hopefully this should work.

Answer 2

First look at auth.log on the system.

cat /var/log/auth.log

In my case with WinSCP, I found something like this:

fatal: no matching mac found: client hmac-sha1,hmac-sha1-96,hmac-md5 server hmac-sha2-512,hmac-sha2-256,hmac-ripemd160 [preauth]

And comment the line in /etc/ssh/sshd_config:

MACs hmac-sha2-512,hmac-sha2-256,hmac-ripemd160

don't forget to restart ssh :-) Hope this can help some one.