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From:	Thorsten Kampe <thorsten AT thorstenkampe DOT de>
Subject:	Re: Firewall issue
Date:	Wed, 14 Jul 2004 10:25:30 +0200
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* Michael Sullivan (2004-07-14 02:16 +0200)
> I hope someone can help me.  I'm using Cygwin on an old PC with 1.2gig
> hard drive and 24MB RAM (pathetic I know.)  I'm using the PC as a
> holding area for backups so that I don't have to write the backups to CD
> every day.  The network card in the PC is a Kingston Etherex card, and
> it's not very widely supported on a Linux that fits on 1.2 gig with so
> little RAM.  Anyway, I've hooked it up to my network and installed
> Cygwin, though I don't think I have enough space for all of it.  I want
> to be able to run sshd so that my server PC can copy its daily backups
> over to the Cygwin PC, but every time I try to ssh from the server PC
> over to Cygwin, I get a "Connection refused".  I'm not familiar with
> Cygwin's firewall; I'm used to using iptables and there doesn't seem to
> be an iptables package available on the Cygwin setup program.

If you're "used to using iptables" than you should know that
"Connection reset by peer" is an indication for a firewall.
"Connection refused" means simply "no ssh daemon" there.

> How do I fix this?

Install and run sshd according to the Cygwin ssh readme.

Thorsten


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