Jaco Muller asked 2 months ago
Good Evening
I have a Raspberry Pi model B Rev 2 512 Mb Ram. I have made a fresh installation on the SD card. I have installed Mosquitto, but now I want to use Putty to remote into the Raspberry Pi. I have enabled SSH on the Raspberry. I have also set a static IP address. I have installed putty on my Windows 11 laptop. Both are connected to the same network. When I try to open the connection from putty, I use the username “pi” and password “raspberry”. The connection does not happen and the report is “access denied”. Do you have any idea what is wrong.
Sara Santos Staff answered 2 months ago
Hi.
If you get the “access denied” error, the most likely issue is an incorrect username and password.
Maybe you set something different without noticing when you installed the operating system.
Regards,
Sara
Jaco Muller answered 2 months ago
Hi Sara, thanks for the answer. My understanding is the default user and password for first connection of Putty is “pi” and “raspberry”. That is why I am trying to connect with that. When I configure my Raspberry board, I didn’t use a password. Up to now, it never asked me for a password.
Sara Santos Staff answered 2 months ago
When you installed the Raspberry Pi OS, there is a section to enable SSH and set the username and password for SSH. Maybe you didn’t enable the SSH?
if you connect a monitor to the Pi, you can enable SSH manually.
Or you can set it by creating a file on the Pi microSD card, we show how to do that in this tutorial under the section “
4) Enabling SSH”
https://randomnerdtutorials.com/installing-raspbian-lite-enabling-and-connecting-with-ssh/
I hope this helps.
Regards,
Sara