ssh between F16 Xfce and Cygwin

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Sun May 20 15:00:25 UTC 2012


On 05/20/2012 12:38 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> First section yes.
>
> On the telnet cygwin 22, I am getting Connection refused. And I just verified again
> that a ping works.
>
> As I mentioned to Joe, I need to get far enough along on my F16 install to get some
> logs so I can catch the error in /var/log/messages (assuming my memory is correct
> and that iptables logs will give me the necessary in /var/log/messages.
>
> My gut is that Cygwin will probably tell me to update all my software ... 

It also should be a very simple matter to prove to yourself that the cygwin system is
at fault.

Just go to your cygwin system, open a window on that system, and ssh to itself.  This
eliminates the network and since you are going from a system to itself...eliminates
anything other than itself.

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