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: can't connect to ssh server on windows xp Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 12:36:41 -0500 Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: 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: X-IsSubscribed: yes Dave Korn wrote: [snip] > "Connection refused" has a very precise meaning: it means that in response > to the outbound SYN packet, the remote host returned a RST instead of a > SYN/ACK. This happens when the port in question is closed - nothing > listening - but *not* firewalled. A firewalled port will return nothing at > all, which is generally referred to as "stealthed", and which will > eventually cause the socket initiating the outbound connection to time out. I stand corrected. Back to the original post... then the problem is that sshd is not running, or at least not listening at port 22. -- 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/