take a look on what you have in your /etc/hosts.deny I had the same problem, and it had ALL:ALL DENY try inserting an except to your host here
2009/5/21 William Zhang <esp...@gmail.com> > > Hi All, > > Have anybody tried Cygwin and SSH with Windows 7 RC x86 (Build 7100)? > I saw there was a discussion some time in Jan about the Windows 7 > Beta and it was reported that the basic stuff works fine including ssh > and sshd. > I just installed Windows 7 RC today and install the cygwin and > openssh. The basic functions like bash, vim.. works fine but I am not > able to ssh to this system from another linux box and here is output > > $ ssh -v -v -v 172.17.139.132 > OpenSSH_5.1p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8h 28 May 2008 > debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config > debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0 > debug1: Connecting to 172.17.139.132 [172.17.139.132] port 22. > debug1: Connection established. > debug1: identity file /home/root/.ssh/identity type -1 > debug1: identity file /home/root/.ssh/id_rsa type -1 > debug1: identity file /home/root/.ssh/id_dsa type -1 > ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host > > It works for some time but most of this time it fails as above. I > tried both the current release 1.5.25-15 and beta release 1.7 but got > the same results. Firewall and UAC are turned off in Windows. > > Did anybody get luck to make it work on Windows 7 RC? > > Thanks, > William > > -- > 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/ > -- 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/