Cygwin Openssh records its syslog messages into the event log. Tev
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Sorens > Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 12:30 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: login differences between LAN and WAN to openSSH on > cygwin with putty > > I have been having the darnedest time trying to figure out > what is happening here: > > I am running openSSH on Cygwin on WinXPhome on my home LAN. > It is actually behind a wireless router (R2) then behind a > DSL modem (R1) before it gets to the internet. I have > port-forwarding from R1 to R2, then from R2 to my PC/ssh server. > I am able to login to my ssh server with putty from another > PC when I am inside R2's subnet, and when I go to R1's > subnet, but when I try to access it from R1's external IP it fails. > > Some details on the failure: > (1) Initially putty timed out until I realized ZoneAlarm > firewall on my ssh server was blocking it, so I just turned > off that firewall for now. > (2) Then, running sshd on port 2444 (a randomly picked port) > putty came back promptly with "Connection refused". > (3) Changing sshd back to the standard port 22, I now get a > strange response--putty opens and immediately closes (too > fast to see if there is any message). > > I tried to turn on logging in sshd_config, even setting the > loglevel to DEBUG, but the /var/log/sshd.conf remains > stubbornly empty. > > The real question, then, is: What am I missing in my > configuration to get putty to work from the internet? > Failing an answer to that: how can I get sshd logging turned > on to try to see what is happening? > > Thanks, > ~~Michael Sorens > >
