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Date:	Fri, 04 Nov 2011 08:39:49 -0400
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On 11/4/2011 8:17 AM, gabier wrote:
>
> Hi everybody,
> First post here, I am a Cygwin newbie. I try to implement ssh connectivity
> between my Windows 7 desktop and a FreeBSD/FreeNAS server.
> Openssh shell commands seem to work, but sshd is not running and thus
> network commands issued from the server abort because of connection refused.
> The sshd windows service is automatically started at windows startup, but it
> is not running. If I start the service by Windows command, it starts and
> stops immediately (Windows saying).
>
> If I start it at the command line with ssh I tried 2 ways
>
> $ /usr/sbin/sshd.exe
> /etc/sshd_config: No such file or directory
>
> $cygrunsrv  --start sshd
> cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: OpenService:  Win32 error 5:
> Accès refusé.
>
> I searched this forum but I am lost in the variety of parameters and reasons
> of not working, as well as different versions.
> In fact I downloaded the cygwin setup, and installed the default packages,
> and afterwards I installed the openssh package (5.9).
> What is to be done in order to debug this problem ? Is sshd simply lacking a
> sshd_config file ? Then how to build it ?

Did you run /usr/bin/ssh-host-config ?

Ken


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