Hey there!
Maybe you guys can help me out.
I got an unix server running samba on it and I also got the root username and password.
The only problem is: I can not connect through ssh.
The port is open, but when I try to connect through putty the connection gets closed just after a second. So a ssh connection does not even get established.
Is there any chance that I can connect to ssh anyways?

sorry if it's a dumb question, just tried several things out and i'm running out of ideas now.

Data2k

can you log in as a non root user, check your sshd_config file for this line: "PermitRootLogin yes" (assuming you are using openssh)
check /var/log/messages see if sshd is reporting anything

its generally not a good idea to allow remote root login (allow a non-root user then use su), but if its an unimportant box who cares

You can enable an option in Putty that it will not close the window even if the connection fails.
So it should return an error message which might help you.
But I also guess that your server doesn't allow remote root logins for security reasons.