Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes: > > On Jan 14 17:32, Andrew Ng wrote: > > What I did was to change the group of my domain user to be "Administrators" > > in > > "/etc/passwd" rather than the domain group. This stops the following error > > from > > occurring every time I try to ssh to my machine as my domain user: - > > > > 1 [main] -tcsh 13776 C:\Cygwin\bin\tcsh.exe: *** fatal error - > > couldn't > > dynamically determine load address for 'WSAGetLastError' (handle > > 0xFFFFFFFF), > > Win32 error 126 > > > > In fact making the group "Users" also works fine, just not the domain group. > > Using the domain group seems to result in no file access permissions to the > > system libraries and hence the error above when starting the "tcsh" shell. > > > > This isn't ideal as I would really prefer to be using the domain group but > > it's > > better than having to start sshd manually which was my previous workaround. > > By > > the way I'm running on Windows XP Pro x64 SP2. > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-01/msg00334.html > > Corinna >
Thanks for the link. That does explain what's going on in this situation. I think your suggestion of adding the local BUILTIN\Users group would be nice. I'm not too sure our IT will be too keen on adding a domain user for Cygwin sshd purposes. Regards, Andrew -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple