PUTTY Not Working

[mphayesuk]

Hi I have putty on windows and I am trying to connect to my server. The connection is made I enter my details

login as: root
Using keyboard-interactive authentication.
Password:

and then it hangs for a minute or two and then I get an error

"Network error: Software caused connection abort"

Any idease

[falko]

So PuTTY is working, but something seems to be wrong with your network connection. Anything in the logs in /var/log?