I setup ssh, long time ago, when I had suse linux 7.3, now I have 10.1 it was not a easy task, It will be nice to find this tutorial.
On all SuSE installations I ever did (at least the server installations) SSH was running by default...
check the suse box to see if you got the firewall running if so that will block any ssh connects being made to that box on the SHHD