can't connect to sshd on Vista

[marco atzeri]

On 4/26/2013 6:48 AM, Rick McCombs AD5DU wrote:

> After reading this
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-12/msg00557.html
> I can ssh localhost, and it works,  but I can't connect with putty,

firewall enabled ?

> and I just tried connecting from
> another machine and if I try logging in as rick it is refused if I
> connect to cyg_server@rickvista it connects  and drops the connection
> after the greeting.
> By the way the XP machine that I'm also putting cygwin on has a space
> in the users
> home directory I changed the user id but changing the directory
> doesn't seem possible in XP home. Supposedly there is a way to copy
> the profile to a new user I may have to that.
>
> Rick McCombs@ATHLON3000 ~
> $ ssh cyg_server@rickvista
> cyg_server@rickvista's password:
>
[cut]
> Connection to rickvista closed.
>
> Rick McCombs@ATHLON3000 ~
> $
>
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Rick McCombs AD5DU wrote:
>> Help, I have tried about 4 ways I have found on the web to install
>> sshd and none of them work.
>> I can connect to cyg_server for a second.
>>
>> I am the only real user and my userid is rick and have administrative
>> priviledge.
>>
>> I want to do this on XP later I hope it is easier.
>>
>>
>> Thanks.

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