CYGWIN sshd staying in 'Starting' status

[Sam Snitman <ssnitman at yahoo dot com>]

One of my company's Windows 2003 servers had CYGWIN
and I think also openssh that came in CYGWIN on it. 
I'm afraid I do not know much about CYGWIN.  I am
trying to get the cygwin sshd server running to
send/receive files from remote servers via sftp.  When
I try to sftp to this servers own ip, by running the
command 'sftp <our server ip>', it says:

Connecting to <our server ip>
Ssh:connect to host <our server ip> PORT 22:
Connection refused Connection closed

Under Component services I noticed an entry 'CYGWIN
sshd' that was in 'Startup Type' of 'Automatic' but
did not have anything under the 'Status' column.  I
tried to start this service but it has stayed in
'Starting' status for a few hours now. 
D:\cygwin\var\log\sshd.log has the following:

Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_key Could not
load host key: /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key Could not load
host key: /etc/ssh_host_dsa_key Disabling protocol
version 1. Could not load host key Disabling protocol
version 2. Could not load host key
sshd: no hostkeys available -- exiting.
Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_key Could not
load host key: /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key Could not load
host key: /etc/ssh_host_dsa_key Disabling protocol
version 1. Could not load host key Disabling protocol
version 2. Could not load host key
sshd: no hostkeys available -- exiting.
Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_key Could not
load host key: /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key Could not load
host key: /etc/ssh_host_dsa_key Disabling protocol
version 1. Could not load host key Disabling protocol
version 2. Could not load host key
sshd: no hostkeys available -- exiting.

I have since tried to stop the service by running the
command: 'netstop sshd' and received the following: 

D:\cygwin>net stop sshd
The CYGWIN sshd service is stopping...........
The CYGWIN sshd service could not be stopped.

Can anyone provide me with some ideas to troubleshoot?

Thanks very much,

Sam


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