Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.1.0.6.0.20040713212422.03359c10@pop.prospeed.net> X-Sender: Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 21:26:24 -0400 To: Michael Sullivan , cygwin@cygwin.com From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: Firewall issue In-Reply-To: <1089764175.11894.8.camel@baby.espersunited.com> References: <1089764175.11894.8.camel@baby.espersunited.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 08:16 PM 7/13/2004, you wrote: >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. How do I >fix this? Cygwin has no firewall. Please follow /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README. If that doesn't help, read and follow when contacting the list again about this issue. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/