How can I ssh to a Windows box?

[Michael Hennebry]

On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Wilfried wrote:

> Michael Hennebry <hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Wilfried wrote:
>>
>>> Michael Hennebry <hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.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?
>
> Perhaps some antivirus software?

I've got Norton and ThreatFire.

> Also have a look in
> (windows') control panel - administration - event viewer - application
> Any entries for sshd?
> Any error entries?

Yes.  Four, all the same.
source: sshd
category: None
user: System
computer: 173249...=the one I'm on

It was still four after I tried to ssh from outside again.
The timeout period seems to be getting longer.

> In cygwin/etc, is there a file named "hosts.allow" ?
> It should be there and contain a line
>
> sshd: ALL

There wasn't.
No hosts.deny either.

> or a list of allowed hosts, see e.g.
> http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l/blcmdl5_hostsal.htm
>
>
>>> 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.
>
> Did you issue all these command while having windows administrator
> rights? The service can only be installed while logged in with
> administrator rights.

Yes.

> The sshd service should also be displayed in Windows' services list.
> (following is my translation to English, maybe it's actually named
> differently, but I haven't access to an English WinXP:)
> Control panel - administration - computer administration - services and
> applications - services
> It shows as
> service name: sshd
> start type: automatic
> status: ended

status is blank.

> You can also look in to the task manager.
> It should show up as sshd.exe with user "SYSTEM".

It does.

>
> (Also with admin rights) open a command prompt ("DOS box") and enter
>
> netstat -a
>
> It should display
>
>  TCP   computername:ssh     computername:0    LISTENING

Also what I infer are two putty sessions and a WinScp session.

> Repeat this after making a local connection.

TCP   computername:ssh     computername:4120    ESTABLISHED

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