On Nov 5 22:38, Habermann, David (D) wrote: >> It would appear, after a bit more digging, that this problem is >> related to some timeout issues. Most of the time the ssh login goes >> rapidly, but occasionally it takes quite a lot longer triggering the >> expect default timeout. When setting the timeout substantially >> longer, the reliability goes up substantially.
> Such phases wher checking for an account takes a bit longer just happen. > I don't see that Cygwin has this really under control. Local caching > should alleviate this somewhat. Seems that this is not taken care of by caching...I have cygserver running first, prior to anything else, and what I was finding was that the problem was intermittent, 20 rapid-fire tries would result in 2-3 random failures.
