Okay, so in my network, we have a webserver.

Today, I wanted to get on and refresh the content on a few pages.

Well, all is fine and good untill i TRY to "Connect to Server" from my Ubuntu 11.10 Desktop distro's file manager.

The popup appears

Server Details
     Server: 192.168.1.110
     Port: 22
     Type: SSH
etc etc

Either way, i type my credentials, but then i get an error, either "PLEASE verify your user details" or "Access Denied"

These are the correct credentials, because i am able to use them to log in to the actual machine after restarts, etc.

But through ssh, my credentials seem to be false

is there a command i need to use to change the SSH password for the user, or is there a glitch on not retrieving the password from the shadow file?

Speedy help would be appreciated, as this is a PROBLEM with a server that is public and live.

THANKS. Also, more information

The server also does not let any other users on through ssh, but will let them on the physical machine.

Effected accounts such as
root
administrator
webserver1

etcSounds like your ssh installation is borked.  Try "apt-get remove --purge openssh-server" then reinstall.  It might be that ssh is trying to use some authentication method other than Unix passwd files (LDAP, AD, etc.).Actually, after some research, it was a configuration file (i can not remember which one at the moment) that i had set up wrong a while ago, to restrict all accounts by mistake. After quite a bit of the "cd" and "vi" commands, i found the problem.