So out of no where I was unable to SSH into my headless linux box.
So I hooked up a screen and started tooling with it.
My server is still fully functional and the box seems in tact. I just wouldn't let me SSH in.
So I tried follow a few online tutorials on adding my IP to the SSH allow file but nothing seemed to work.
I kept getting
"Network Connect: Connection Refused"
when attempting to SSH in with putty.
So I decided to nuke the iptables and do
sudo apt-get remove --purge iptables
which resulted in a failure.
Something like this
"processing tables for mandb " "fopen permission denied"
So I tried doing
sudo apt-get install iptables
which it said the same fopen error.
End result is my server is up and running but I have no ssh capabilities into my box. On that note though I do still have an active samba connection. Take that for what its worth.
/etc/init.d/iptables stop