Problem with ec2 plug

Question

I followed Amazon’s instructions for the letter and it doesn’t work.

ec2-api-tools-1.3-34128 are the api tools I received from Amazon. Follow these instructions. Everything is checked to make sure that I follow the instructions. When I try to use it, I only get: "invalid.blabla" depending on which command I'm trying to use. Anyone having this problem?

I deleted all my instances and all key pairs. New ones created (example and a pair of keys). Set up the putty again, as the instructions say what I should do (creating a .ppk file and all that). Nevertheless, the problem remains. When I try to connect to my ec2 instance using putty I get a "login like:" ????????

In addition, I am using Windows Vista. This is problem.

thanks

Answer 1

There was the same problem. I found that I had to do three things in the shpakler (only 2 of which are mentioned in the Amazon manual at http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonEC2/gsg/2007-01-19/putty.html )

• provide the converted private key in ssh -> Auth
• provide a DNS or IP name
• go to Connection -> Data and enter "ec2-user" as the name of the automatic login

Hope this saves someone else 20 minutes!

Answer 2

Have you made sure that you set "root" as the automatic login account in the "Data" section?

Answer 3

The error I made than gave me the same error message " root @ ec2-.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com" as the value in the "Hostname (or IP address)" field in the spackler.

You need to specify " ubuntu @ ec2-.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com".