X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <45EEDE96.1080403@buongiorno.com> Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:47:34 +0100 From: Marielle Fois User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Making sftp and ssh work on cygwin References: <45EECEBC.1000003@buongiorno.com> <1nf6mb1g7t4p1$.dlg@game.dialog.schweiz.digitalprojects.com> In-Reply-To: <1nf6mb1g7t4p1$.dlg@game.dialog.schweiz.digitalprojects.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Thanks for your answer, Alexander. You are right about the IPs, but that's no problem. I didn't want to publish my company's ips, so I changed the numbers. Only I didn't realize I put one number greater than 255. Regards, Marielle Alexander Skwar wrote: > Marielle Fois : > > >> Hello, >> >> I recently downloaded cygwin and I've been trying to make ssh and sftp >> work with no success. When I run these commands I get these outputs: >> >> $ ssh user@142.268.10.26 >> >> $ sftp user@142.268.10.26 >> Connecting to 142.268.10.26... >> Connection closed >> > > 142.268.10.26 is not a legal name, as hostnames cannot contain > ONLY numbers. And it's also not an IP, as IP's cannot be larger > than 255, but 268 is. > > Alexander Skwar > > > -- > 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/ > > > > -- Marielle Fois Buongiorno SpA, www.buongiorno.com ph: +34 911 415 100, skype: marielle.fois -- 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/