ssh connection refused on Raspberry Pi

Question

I realize this question has already been asked in some different ways  however it doesn t seem like any of the ways I ve come across have worked to fix this problem  so here it goes   I m trying to connect to my raspberry pi 3 raspbian setup via ssh on my laptop  but although I have the correct ip address  I keep getting the error    ssh  connect to host xxx xxx xx x port 22  connection refused    This is unusual because when I try to ping that address  it works fine  Is there anything I can try to figure out what s wrong    Also keep in mind I am relatively inexperienced with bash in linux  so inclusion of any specific commands with a description of what they do would be greatly appreciated

User · Accepted Answer

Apparently  the SSH server on Raspbian is now disabled by default   If there is no server listening for connections  it will not accept them  You can manually enable the SSH server according to this raspberrypi org tutorial       As of the November 2016 release  Raspbian has the SSH server disabled by default    There are now multiple ways to enable it   Choose one   From the desktop        Launch Raspberry Pi Configuration from the Preferences menu   Navigate to the Interfaces tab   Select Enabled next to SSH   Click OK      From the terminal with raspi-config        Enter sudo raspi-config in a terminal window   Select Interfacing Options   Navigate to and select SSH   Choose Yes   Select Ok   Choose Finish      Start the SSH service with systemctl   sudo systemctl enable ssh sudo systemctl start ssh    On a headless Raspberry Pi     For headless setup  SSH can be enabled by placing a file named ssh  without any extension  onto the boot partition of the SD card  When the Pi boots  it looks for the ssh file  If it is found  SSH is enabled  and the file is deleted  The content of the file does not matter  it could contain text  or nothing at all

User · Answer

I think pi has ssh server enabled by default   Mine have always worked out of the box   Depends which operating system version maybe     Most of the time when it fails for me it is because the ip address has been changed   Perhaps you are pinging something else now   Also sometimes they just refuse to connect and need a restart

[linux] ssh connection refused on Raspberry Pi

From the desktop

From the terminal with `raspi-config`

Start the SSH service with `systemctl`

On a headless Raspberry Pi

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