Re: Grief: installing OpenSSH on Cygwin / WindowsServer2003

2009-06-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Chap Harrison wrote: Hi, I followed directions (/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README) as best I could, helped out by a couple of other web sources along the way. I know almost nothing about Windows administration. Trying to connect with PuTTY gives a "server unexpectedly closed connectin"

RE: Grief: installing OpenSSH on Cygwin / WindowsServer2003

2009-06-27 Thread David Christensen
Chap Harrison wrote: > It finally turned out to be that /etc/hosts.deny was too restrictive: > ALL:ALL EXCEPT localhost:DENY Oops. ;-) > I ran ssh-host-config, but did not run ssh-user-config. Must have > overlooked that step. Perhaps that would have taken care of it? I doubt it. I believ

Re: Grief: installing OpenSSH on Cygwin / WindowsServer2003

2009-06-26 Thread Chap Harrison
It finally turned out to be that /etc/hosts.deny was too restrictive: ALL:ALL EXCEPT localhost:DENY I ran ssh-host-config, but did not run ssh-user-config. Must have overlooked that step. Perhaps that would have taken care of it? Thanks, Chap On Jun 26, 2009, at 9:17 PM, David Christensen

RE: Grief: installing OpenSSH on Cygwin / WindowsServer2003

2009-06-26 Thread David Christensen
Chap Harrison wrote: > Trying to connect with PuTTY gives a "server unexpectedly closed > connectin" error. Have you run ssh-host-config? ssh-user-config? Have you opened up port 22 in your firewall? Have you tried telnet to port 22 from localhost and from another host? HTH, David -- Pr