Tom, I feel your pain. I've made an attempt to untangle this for beginners at
http://www.mines.edu/~gmurray/ at the "SSH2 for Beginners" link. I mention it in the hope that it may be of some help. Good luck, Glenn On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Tom Dorgan wrote: > ok, I give up. > > I have set up cygwin on at least 20 machines over the last 4 years and I > have never gotten any of these to work right the first try. And, it seems > like every time I get telnet or ssh working, I did something different. > there seems to be no recipe for making them work. I, like many others, have > spent countless fruitless hours searching the web, the cygwin mailing list, > etc. > > right now, I have an xp box that can run ssh, but not telnet, a 2k box that > ran telnet until I started trying to get ssh working, another 2k box that > can only run ssh. none of them can run ftp. > > I'm not asking for help. I dont thing there is any. I'm just very tired and > frustrated. > > sorry, Im just not smart enough to use this stuff. > > tom dorgan. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/