* Michael Sullivan (2004-07-14 02:16 +0200) > I hope someone can help me. I'm using Cygwin on an old PC with 1.2gig > hard drive and 24MB RAM (pathetic I know.) I'm using the PC as a > holding area for backups so that I don't have to write the backups to CD > every day. The network card in the PC is a Kingston Etherex card, and > it's not very widely supported on a Linux that fits on 1.2 gig with so > little RAM. Anyway, I've hooked it up to my network and installed > Cygwin, though I don't think I have enough space for all of it. I want > to be able to run sshd so that my server PC can copy its daily backups > over to the Cygwin PC, but every time I try to ssh from the server PC > over to Cygwin, I get a "Connection refused". I'm not familiar with > Cygwin's firewall; I'm used to using iptables and there doesn't seem to > be an iptables package available on the Cygwin setup program.
If you're "used to using iptables" than you should know that "Connection reset by peer" is an indication for a firewall. "Connection refused" means simply "no ssh daemon" there. > How do I fix this? Install and run sshd according to the Cygwin ssh readme. Thorsten -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/