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Need Help with Blink Shell
Need Help with Blink Shell

Very rusty former Unix developer here, now disabled. I often need to run a few commands on my MacBook and it is easier to use my iPad to do so when I am in bed. I had Blink Shell working with my iPad and MacBook. I could connect via ssh, even run vim and emacs inside the ssh session. I could even connect with ssh using the host name I created in Blink’s configuration for the userid and IP address. But I wanted to try mosh because of its advanced capabilities. I installed the mosh-server on my Mac, and now I not only cannot connect using mosh, I can no longer connect using ssh, either. Both fail with a connection timeout, socket error. I don’t get any more error info than that. I am using an iPad Air with an M3 chip running iPadOS 18.3.2 and a MacBook Air 2022 with an M2 chip running Ventura 13.4. I know these are older OS versions but I am not in a position to upgrade yet until I can get backups setup, and besides, Blink Shell was working with ssh with these versions at first. I can’t be sure the installation of mosh-server on my MacBook caused the problem, but it was after installing that that ssh in Blink stopped working. I rebooted my Mac, and I deleted and reinstalled the Blink Shell app on my iPad, but the connection errors are still occurring.