Connection error "No File Found"

[MadChimpanzee]

I am attempting to connect to my 400 and when I do so it gives the error message "File not found". I have verified that port 22 is active and listening on the 400 and that my password is correct. I am able to connect via 5250 with my user profile and password. However, vsCode will not connect. I also can ping the 400 and get a response and used both the hostname and IP to verify it wasn't a DNS issue.

12:47PM CST

Context	Version
Code for IBM i version	2.14.5
Visual Studio Code version	1.96.4
Operating System	win32_x64

Active extensions

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Error Lens (errorlens): 3.23.0
Git (git): 1.0.0
Git Base (git-base): 1.0.0
GitHub (github): 0.0.1
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GitHub Copilot (copilot): 1.261.0
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IntelliCode (vscodeintellicode): 1.3.2
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Not connected 🔌

[sebjulliand]

Does your password contain any special characters?

[sebjulliand]

Also, can you manage to connect using a third party ssh client, like putty?

[MadChimpanzee]

Yes, it does contain special characters. Interesting, when I attempt to connect with putty it is giving me an access denied response. However, I do have allobj authority on my profile.

[sebjulliand]

It's very possible these special characters are the root cause of your problem. Several users reported connection issues that were in the end related to the special characters in their password. Changing the password to remove the characters solved the problem.

Note that it's an SSH/CCSID issue and not something that could be fixed in code for IBM i 😅

[MadChimpanzee]

Ok, so that corrected the issue with Putty. Although I'm still getting the same issue with Code for IBM i.

[sebjulliand]

Try to re-create the connection.
If it still fails, please send a screenshot of the error dialog and the content of the console (the console is found in the Help -> Toggle dev tools view).

[MadChimpanzee]

Here are some screenshots.

[sebjulliand]

I'm not certain that's the issue, but I'd first try to fix the temporary library issue. Open your connection settings and, under the Temporary Data tab, change the Temporary Library to use one you have full access to:

Even though, you mentioned you have *ALLOBJ, so I doubt this is the actual problem.

Export the whole console content after a failed attempt and put it here please.

[MadChimpanzee]

Interesting, I was able to connect to my Develop partition with the same configurations. I gave myself full permissions to that same LIB and it still refused the connection.

exthost.log