Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: wbp AT nodomain DOT invalid (Will Parsons) Subject: Re: can't connect to ssh server on windows xp Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 15:25:01 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <200506302311 DOT j5UNBsel023617 AT citheronia DOT ucdavis DOT edu> Reply-To: william DOT b DOT parsons AT us DOT westinghouse DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.1 (Win32) X-IsSubscribed: yes René Berber wrote: > Yu-Cheng Chou wrote: > >> I installed sshd as a system service on windows xp, >> but I can't connect to this ssh server through ssh. >> The firewall has been turned off. > > By that you mean an external firewall? > >> The sshd is listening to port 22. >> But when I tried to connect to this server, the error >> message below occurred. >> >> ssh: connect to host mouse1 port 22: Connection refused >> >> Any idea to fix that? > > If the answer to my above question is yes, then you have to enable sshd use of > port 22 on Windows XP's own firewall. Otherwise, I don't know, but "connection > refused" means something is listening on that port and refusing connections so I think "connection refused" is the message you get when *nothing* is listening on the port. > you should start by looking out what is listening there (netstat -ba | grep > ssh), if it is Cygwin's sshd then check your configuration /etc/sshd_config . > - Will -- 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/