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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Berber?= Subject: Re: CVS SSH connection timeout Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 17:08:35 -0500 Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <8FC963540261E74C8736D5144F69956026000F@gsnmp04es.firmwide.corp.gs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) In-Reply-To: <8FC963540261E74C8736D5144F69956026000F@gsnmp04es.firmwide.corp.gs.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Singh, Mahendra wrote: > I have installed CYGWIN on my XP box. I have also successfully setup CVS > and added various projects to it. > I am attempting to allow remote users access to my CVS respositiory. I do > this by running the sshd server and allow users to connect via ssh. > This was working fine a few days ago, but no, when users try to connect by > specifying my Interenet IP, a connection refused occurs. > I have confired that my firewall and router is allowing access to port 22. > I am able to ssh to localhost. So this proves that sshd is running. > Anyone have any thoughts on why this is happening? Windows XP firewall, most likely. I had this problem, perhaps caused by testing stunnel, the solution was to add (again) sshd.exe to the list of exceptions in Winblows firewall settings. Just as a note, I'm using port forwarding at my router since my computer is behind NATP. > Also, how can I create a group, assign users to that group and have that > group be the owner of the CVS repository directories and files? > I would like to try this to see if it would help. Thank you. Just create the user and group under windows, re-run mkpasswd and mkgroup (just append the new user and group), then configure cvs to use those (usually in the repository passwd file). Regards. -- René Berber -- 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/