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Re: Grief: installing OpenSSH on Cygwin / WindowsServer2003


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" error.

Here is where things stand:

-- there is a process /usr/bin/ssh running in Cygwin. I don't have a client running; could this possibly be sshd??

No. 'ssh' is 'ssh'. 'sshd' is 'sshd'. Could be a zombie. Try killing it and starting over.

-- I *can* ssh into the same machine from mintty.

So 'ssh' and the server (sshd) are fine then.


-- the machine on which Cygwin and ssh are installed is a WinServer2003, **running as a VM on a WindowsServer2003 host machine**. I don't know whether this is relevant or not (i.e. whether additional configuration is required on the host OS).

Can someone suggest a next troubleshooting step?

Sounds like a PuTTY problem then. You'll need to ask about this on a PuTTY list. My guess is you have a configuration issue there. If you can get similar debugging output from PuTTY as you get from 'ssh', you may be able to compare the two and see if something materializes.


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