When i click the SSH button in the Complete Engine page, the shell window pops up and it shows that the ssh keys are being migrated. After that dialog disappears, nothing happens. I get a blank page without any prompt.
If you're using Firefox (same as me). This seems to be the problem as chrome works fine. Apparently Firefox has a bug. Idk if it's an actual bug or it's done on purpose because sometimes (less times) this works on Firefox and then sometimes doesn't unless I keep and keep reopening an closing the SSH.
Instead of opening and closing every time hoping for a chance to work and or using chrome, If you have linux or in my case I have Windows subsystem for Linux on my windows computer, so I can just SSH to it.
For windows, you could use the subsystem, or use Putty (Here's a putty tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmh94mNQHQc on how to connect to GCC) That putty tutorial is also similar to how you can do it on the subsystem so you can still watch it for that too
It's a bug in a Chromium library that affects Firefox. Use Chrome as a workaround.
To use the browser to SSH to a GCE instance, you need to be a compute instance admin. Also, if you run that instance with a Service Account, your account need to be a Service Account user. Check this link for more information: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/ssh-in-browser
In addition, did you check that your firewall allows connections to SSH port (22) from Google IP ranges ?
You can find them by using these commands (see https://support.google.com/a/answer/60764)
nslookup -q=TXT _netblocks.google.com 8.8.8.8
nslookup -q=TXT _netblocks2.google.com 8.8.8.8
nslookup -q=TXT _netblocks3.google.com 8.8.8.8
You can try different methods of connecting an instance to see if the issue is underlying at SSH or somewhere else.
There are several ways to connect a Linux instance via the SSH. You can connect to an instance via the terminal. You can connect via the Cloud Console Web UI which is in general the most convenient way to connect to an instance. Also, you can use Google Cloud SDK and run below command to connect to an instance via SSH:
$ gcloud compute ssh [INSTANCE_NAME]
You can also use Cloud Shell to connect your instance from the Cloud Console web UI by using the same command as above. You can connect via the serial console using the Google Cloud Platform Console, the gcloud command-line tool, or a third-party SSH client. The serial console authenticates users with SSH keys. Specifically, you must add your public SSH key to the project or instance metadata, and store your private key on the local machine from which you want to connect. There are other advanced methods to connect to an instance.
I would also recommend to check if you have firewall rule for port 22 which is required for SSH. You can go to the VPC Network from Cloud Console and then Firewall Rules tab, check if you have firewall rule for port 22 and that rule applied to affected instance or not. If there no firewall rule for port 22, create firewall rule and apply to the affected instance.
You can also follow this SSH troubleshooting steps mentioned at this link.
I have the same problem and after recreating 4 instances and going thru every possible ssh key scenario I decided to try chrome and it worked fine whereas in firefox i get the blank black screen after the key handshake. I watched thru the serial port and the sys log showed all of the same entries for my broken web ssh session in firefox as it did for the working chrome web ssh session which means it has to be a problem with firefox.
Same issue. Ad blocker was to blame. Try whitelisting, disabling or use a private window.
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It won't let me connect to the instance's ssh it just keeps loading, I tried to delete it and create it again but nothing, still check the firewall and the ports are not causing an echo.
I had a similar issue with the web console built-in client. Clean browser cache, try a different browser, use gcloud compute ssh from cli or cloud shell. BTW, if it's an access issue (however you should have received an error in ssh window in this case) - you'll see same problem in command line, if it's a browser issue cli will work.
I created GCP VM for one month and connect VM instance through GCP console via browser.It worked fine for past one month until VM restart. I did not create ssh key/edit metadata and very thing so far is used default setting. I cannot establish connection after VM restart. The browser kept prompt me cannot establish the connection. I can ping this VM from another VM through VPC. any advise on it. Thank in advance.
There are several ways to connect a Linux instance via the SSH. You can connect to an instance via the terminal. You can connect via the Cloud Console Web UI which is in general the most convenient way to connect to an instance. Also, you can use Google Cloud SDK and run below command to connect to an instance via SSH:
$ gcloud compute ssh [INSTANCE_NAME]
You can also use Cloud Shell to connect your instance from the Cloud Console web UI by using the same command as above. You can connect via the serial console using the Google Cloud Platform Console, the gcloud command-line tool, or a third-party SSH client.
The serial console authenticates users with SSH keys. Specifically, you must add your public SSH key to the project or instance metadata, and store your private key on the local machine from which you want to connect. There are other advanced methods to connect to an instance which you can find at this link.
By default, the gcloud compute command-line tool uses the $USER variable to add users to the /etc/passwd file for connecting to virtual machine instances using SSH. You can specify a different user using the --ssh-key-file PRIVATE_KEY_FILE flag when running the gcloud compute ssh command. Depending on your use case and convenience, you can use any method consistently.
If you fail to connect to your instance upon following these methods then I would suggest to check this troubleshooting page for SSH and follow the instruction that matches your use case.
I am accessing google cloud instance terminal using browser front-end, but it is not opening. It gets struck on transferring ssh keys and ends by giving the error "couldnot access ssh on port 22"
Check whether port 22 is open in the firewall for that specific instance. You can follow this document to manage your firewall rules. You can try connecting via serial console instead. The issue you are facing could arise due to many different reasons. It is worth trying different troubleshooting steps for SSH connectivity.
I have one instance of a Windows Server 12 R2 VM on google cloud that's working properly and I have connected to it successfully using RDP. I have tried to replicate it by creating a snapshot out of it and creating an instance from the snapshot. According to the platform the instance was created, but i can't seem to connect to it or to get a password. When I click "Get windows password" I get this:
forever. When i try to connect to it, I get
I have no idea what to do, any help would be appreciated.Thanks
The password creation tool from the console only works for images builted from the official image repo. In this case your source is a previous VM through a snapshot. In that case, and also in migrations all the previous credentials are kept in the new VM. You can download the GCP RDP agent here and access using the credential you used to have in your source VM.
Connecting to a Windows Instance
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/windows/connecting-to-windows-instance
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In the case you can not get to enter the VM, it seems to be a firewall rules issue. By default the port tcp:3389(RDP access) is open to all VM at the default network, check your VM is in that network or check if the firewall rule has a tag to be applied.
If not, apply a tag to your new machine and create a firewall rule tobe applied to that tag.
Hope it help. Keep us posted!
I logged to my ssh in google cloud Linux Machine by mistake i changed firewall rule and i lost ssh connection. now i am not able login to ssh(22), Is there any way to recover that ?
I know I can take shanpshots of my machine and create new instances using that snapshot. but is there anyway to get again ssh login in same machine or i have to delete it.
Try connecting to the instance via the serial console: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/interacting-with-serial-console. From there you should be able to repair the firewall rules.
pjhsea I tried your steps and it is connecting to serial port but it asks passphrase. I was not sure where I have given this passphrase. If you try to access serial port on gcloud console then it always asks for passphrase.
So I tried below steps and I was able to connect to serial port to change firewall setting on my ubuntu VM.
Goto Compute Engine -> VM Instances fro left side menu.
Click on name of the VM you are facing issue connecting using SSH.
It will open VM Instance details page.
On details tab under VM name there will be two dropdown for remote access.
SSH and Connect to serial console.
Click on serial console and select serial port 1(console)
This connect to serial console without any passphrase and I was able to change my firewall rules using below command.
ufw allow 22
Now you should be able to connect using SSH.