vista rsh problem

[goetz fischer]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul  9 19:10, goetz fischer wrote:
>   
>> okay so once again:
>>
>> i have vista with cygwin (current snap) and the command 'rsh 
>> <server_ip>' causes the prompt to hang forever.
>> it works with cygwin on xp so it should be a vista issue.
>> i posted the server info already some days ago as well as the cygcheck 
>> output.
>>     
>
> You're telling that you tested this on XP for the first time now.
well i used the rsh server with about 8 different platforms and it 
worked with all but vista/cygwin.
>   You
> didn't mentioned the server OS anywhere in this thread.
i did. look again.
>   We only know
> it's not Cygwin and it's not Linux but some sort of "real" unix(*) which
> apparently doesn't use PAM.  You didn't tell if you tried anything to
> diagnose the problem further.
i did. i've send the cygcheck output with my first mail.
>   You did not mention if you ever tested it
> in other scenarios, like a Cygwin -> Linux or a Cygwin -> Cygwin
> connection or between XP->Vista and Vista->XP, etc.
well as i wrote the server is always the same and it worked with 
whatever i tried except vista/cygwin
>   You didn't reply to
> Dave's question about any specific software on the Vista machine.
>   
yes, i did.
> There's just the bare fact "it hangs in this one instance".  Do you
> really think a bug report is useful with all that guesswork left?
>   
see above.
not my fault if you missed so much.
> Apart from that, I have only Cygwin and Linux ready for testing and
> debugging.  If you use any other OS, you will have to debug this problem
> by yourself.
okay, how?
i don't get any kind of output at all
>   Of course, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC.
>
>
> Corinna
>
>
> (*)   System 7?  System V Release 4?  True64?  OpenUnix?
>
>   

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