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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 21:26:24 -0400
To: Michael Sullivan <michael AT espersunited DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Firewall issue
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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 <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>
when contacting the list again about this issue.


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