Grief: installing OpenSSH on Cygwin / WindowsServer2003

Mon Jun 29 19:21:00 GMT 2009

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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