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Date:	Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:00:02 -0700 (MST)
From:	Glenn Murray <gmurray AT mines DOT edu>
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To:	Tom Dorgan <tdorgan AT yahoo DOT com>
cc:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: inetd:ssh/telnet/ftp - Im too stupid to use these
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Tom,

I feel your pain.  I've made an attempt to untangle this for beginners
at

http://www.mines.edu/~gmurray/

at the "SSH2 for Beginners" link.  I mention it in the hope that it
may be of some help.

Good luck,
Glenn

On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Tom Dorgan wrote:
> ok, I give up.
>
> I have set up cygwin on at least 20 machines over the last 4 years and I
> have never gotten any of these to work right the first try. And, it seems
> like every time I get telnet or ssh working, I did something different.
> there seems to be no recipe for  making them work. I, like many others, have
> spent countless fruitless hours searching the web, the cygwin mailing list,
> etc.
>
> right now, I have an xp box that can run ssh, but not telnet, a 2k box that
> ran telnet until I started trying to get ssh working, another 2k box that
> can only run ssh. none of them can run ftp.
>
> I'm not asking for help. I dont thing there is any. I'm just very tired and
> frustrated.
>
> sorry, Im just not smart enough to use this stuff.
>
> tom dorgan.


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