Hi Mal,
Two things: Which Windows Beta client are you using? The latest one is
from March 1. Please download that from http://www.ssh.com/ssh.
Also, please download the UNIX public beta as well. See if that fixes
it. If not, drop me a line and I'll work on it here.
-Anne
On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 02:56:41PM +1100, Salameh, Malcolm (ETC - MLAJA) wrote:
> Oh, just one thing to add to this. This is what I see on server1's log:
>
> Mar 3 14:52:19 server1 sshd[1487]: User malcolm's local password accepted.
> Mar 3 14:52:19 server1 sshd[1487]: Password authentication for user malcolm
> accepted.
> Mar 3 14:52:19 server1 sshd[1487]: User msalameh, coming from
> server2.au.ml.com, authenticated.
>
> And then nothing! The client on server2 just sits there!
>
> Sorry to be a pain again.
> Mal
>
> -----Original Message-----
> All,
>
> Has anyone seen these symptons - I'm running SSH 2.0.13 running on Solaris
> 2.6. I am able to connect to SSH on all of these hosts using my Windows SSH
> GUI client (the beta one). However, when I try to use ssh from the UNIX
> server I get:
>
> >ssh server1
> Accepting host server1 key without checking
> malcolm's password:
>
> I enter my password for server1 and it just sits there forever! I can't even
> break it. However, I can ssh to server1 using my Windows GUI. Weird stuff!
> Does this have anything to do with home drives I wonder. You see, from the
> UNIX server i'm ssh'ing from, my home drive is automounted (via automountd).
> However, server1 is not NIS enabled and doesn't automount home drives (I
> have an account in the local password file).
>
> When I try to ssh from two machines that are both NIS and automount enabled
> (so my home drive will the exactly the same on both servers), SSH works
> fine. However, when I try the SSH to machines which are not automounting my
> home drive (that is, I have a local password and /home directory) ssh just
> hangs. But then why does it work for the Windows GUI client?
>
> I love strange problems!
>
> Thanks for your help in advance people,
> Mal
>
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Anne Carasik
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SSH Communications Security, Inc.
Senior Technical Support Engineer
"Any two consenting adults can rub two primes
together to create a public keypair" - R. Thayer
