sshd must be restarted

[Chris Taylor]

Brian Dessent wrote:
> Ken Senior wrote:
> 
> 
>>Does anyone know why after a Windows XP reboot one must restart the SSH
>>daemon in order to allow incoming ssh?  The process is automatically
>>running after a reboot but all incoming SSH from remote clients are
>>terminated with the following message being displayed on the remote
>>client:
>>
>>ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
>>
>>Restarting the daemon, either in Windows services or on the bash command
>>line, fixes the problem allowing in ssh traffic once again. ??
> 
> 
> You should check the Event Log on the host machine, since any errors
> would be displayed there.
> 
> What it sounds like is that the service is starting before some other
> required networking component has started.  As part of the XP bootup
> time optimizations a lot of stuff is launched in parallel.  You might
> try setting 'tcpip' as a startup dependency of the sshd service to see
> if it fixes things.
> 
> Brian
> 

That's a good point. A very good point.
Should have thought of that really.. Especially as it works fine after a 
restart - though the changing homedir is also an issue to do with the 
setup here.

So yes, try this first Ken. It should help/fix the issues wrt ssh not 
working initially..

I wonder if it would be worth having ssh-host-config set tcpip as a 
dependancy for sshd on all systems? While this doesn't seem to have 
cropped up much, specifically, it couldn't hurt..


Chris

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