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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:16:20 -0500 (CDT)
From: Michael Hennebry <hennebry AT web DOT cs DOT ndsu DOT nodak DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: How can I ssh to a Windows box?
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On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Wilfried wrote:

> Michael Hennebry <hennebry AT web DOT cs DOT ndsu DOT nodak DOT edu> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>> ...
>> I've discovered that if I kill the demon,
>> I still get timeout from the outside,
>> but connection refused locally.
>
> If you can login to ssh locally but not from the outside, perhaps your
> Windows' firewall is blocking this.

That was my thought, too,
but it seems to be correct and turning it off didn't help.
Could I be missing a similar flag somewhere?

>> I haven't been able to restart the demon:
>> /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writeable.
>
> You must give the files the correct ownership and access rights:
> In cygwin, issue:
>
> cd /
> chmod og+w /tmp
> touch /var/log/sshd.log
> chown system:system /var/log/sshd.log /var/empty /etc/ssh_h*
> chmod 755 /var/empty
>
> Define the service with the command
>
> cygrunsrv -I sshd -p /usr/sbin/sshd

It was already installed, so I used --remove first.
It was running after the last reboot.

> Start the service by
>
> cygrunsrv -S sshd

No go.
Win32 error 1062
I tried again after making the rest of /etc system:system .
Same no go.

> Stop the service by
>
> cygrunsrv -E sshd

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