On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 15:17, Kirby Bakken <bakke...@gmail.com> wrote: > Help. > > I recently installed cygwin w/sshd packages on my Win7 pro PC. I've gotten > ssh to work both with localhost, and with the LAN IP address. > > However, trying to ssh from 'outside' my router doesn't work. I CAN ssh to > my linux box. Then I change the port-forward in the router to my Win7 box, > and I got 'permission denied' after the password prompt. After much > fiddling, the /etc/host.allow/deny files have somewhere along the line > disappeared. Now, I get a timeout... > > Questions: > > 1) are the host.allow and deny files required?
hosts.allow and hosts.deny only work if you compiled using tcp_wrappers > 2) are there any known problems with sshd running on Win7? > I use SSHd on several Windows 7 machines (when I'm not on my native OpenBSD laptop) > Before I 'munged' my installation and the allow/deny files diisappeared, I > had tried su and login, and got permission denied errors.... > > I've un-installed sshd and re-installed it several times.... > > The /var/log/sshd.log file is oddly empty... Trying to run /usr/sbin/sshd > and not as a service hasn't worked. > > Ideas? Suggestions? > > Kirby > Disable your windows 7 firewall, or make it so that it passes port 22. If you are remote, make sure your ISP isn't blocking port 22 inbound to your router. I had an ISP that blocked a lot of ports below 1024. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
