I have a Raspberry Pi, and I have an SD card with Rasbian on it that is currently in the Pi.
I have a laptop with Windows 8.1 on it, and I have connected it to the Pi using an Ethernet cable. I want to SSH in to the Pi, so I have installed PuTTy.
I went to the windows command line and typed in ipconfig and looked under Ethernet adapter Ethernet > Autoconfiguration Ipv4 Address to find the ip address of the Pi.
I took that IP and entered it under "Hostname(or IP address)" in PuTTy. I gave the name a session, pressed save and open. Now, I am getting the following error:
Fatal Error: Network Error: Connection Refused
I looked online, but I couldn't find a solution for windows (but there are a lot for Linux). I tried making sure I had the right IP address by trying to ping the Pi (and I can). I read other posts saying the error is caused by the server blocking the connection, but I am not sure how I would go about fixing that. The only thing I can see that looks strange in the command line to me is that there is no default gateway set up for Ethernet. However, I thought that I would need access to the Pi in order to change that.
Can someone tell me if there is a step I am missing in my setup that could be causing this error?
I'm new to this, so any help is appreciated.
Thanks!
Best Answer
I came across this question while faced with the same error/problem. I've found something that works for me, so I'll update the answers.
The short answer is that you need to add a file to the boot folder of your SD card, and call it "ssh" (the filename is extension-less, mind you).
The instructions for this can be found here: Headless Raspberry Pi Setup