Thanks for the link. I removed the default CYGWIN sshd service and ran:
cygrunsrv --install sshd --path /usr/sbin/sshd.exe --user jeevis01 --args '-D' --env 'CYGWIN="ntsec" It asked for my password and installed successfully. However I couldn't start the service, and my /var/log/sshd.log was empty. Later I tried starting sshd manually: $ /usr/sbin/sshd.exe /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable. $ ls -ld /var/empty/ drwxr-xr-x+ 2 SYSTEM Administrators 0 Dec 30 16:57 /var/empty/ $ chmod 700 /var/empty/ $ ls -ld /var/empty/ drwx------+ 2 SYSTEM Administrators 0 Dec 30 16:57 /var/empty/ $ /usr/sbin/sshd.exe /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable. I think this is the reason why the server failed to start when I installed service in my name. Although I see many posts facing similar issues, problem gets solved after the chmod command. However, for me, it doesn't. Please help. PS: Though I've subscribed to the list, replies to this topic is not reaching my inbox for some reason. I'm reading replies at the archive. On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Jeenu V <jee...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I've a Cygwin ssh server up on Windows XP. My home directory on the > host is a network drive (H:) which I'm able to acess locally as > /cygdrive/h. When I do ssh to localhost using PuTTY, I'm unable to > access the /cygdrive/h path - the mount command only shows c: mounted > as /cygdrive/c. I can neither create directory h inside /cygdrive nor > mount h: to there - it says no such file or directory. Also there are > error messages when I log-in because of /cygdrive/h being > inaccessible, because it's the home directory. Please tell me how to > access this network drive via. ssh. > > -- > Thanks > Jeenu > -- Thanks Jeenu -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
