X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Subject: Re: Cygwin, OpenSSH, IPv6. From: David Woodhouse To: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: <20080622191359.GA14626@calimero.vinschen.de> References: <1214065065.15682.29.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20080622191359.GA14626@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:47:50 +0100 Message-Id: <1214210870.2409.38.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.2 (2.22.2-2.fc9) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 21:13 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jun 22 12:15, Ren? Berber wrote: > > David Woodhouse wrote: > > > >> I'm trying to get the OpenSSH dæmon working on the Windows box > >> my new employer gave me. I followed the instructions at > >> http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~kscully/CygwinSSHD_W2K3.html (not quite > >> understanding what the 'mount -s --change-cygdrive-prefix' command was > > You don't need it and should better revert it to using not just / as > cygdrive prefix. The default is `mount -s -c /cygdrive'. Using the > root dir might work, but is not supported. OK, thanks. > Cygwin 1.7 contains IPv6 support (self-written btw.(*)) and OpenSSH in > the 1.7 test release is built with IPv6 support as well and SSH over > IPv6 works for me in my local IPv6 setup. However, > neither the installation process, nor the Cygwin DLL, nor the release > directory are finished yet for production use(**). Right now the stuff is > only meant for package maintainers. If you're not faint of heart, you > can override your 1.5 install by using the 1.7 test setup tool > http://cygwin.com/setup-1.7.exe. However, you have been warned: Things > might not work as expected yet (***). TBH, the _most_ important thing I want Cygwin for right now is so that I can SSH into the box over IPv6. And the 1.7 test release seems to work just fine for that; thanks. -- dwmw2 -- 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/