From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: how to allow connections from another host to cygwin
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 08:19:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130702081938.GD4763@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130702003405.GA6904@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
On Jul 1 20:34, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 04:08:11PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> >On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 2:34 PM, markov wrote:
> >> I am trying to connect a client program running on unix to a server
> >> program running on cygwin without success. I also tried to connect from
> >> unix to cygwin with ssh, ftp, ... but without success as well. When I
> >> looked on net, it says that I first have to allow hostname or ip-address
> >> in xorg-conf (equivalent file) of the remote host to be connected. is
> >> there any idea about this issue? Thanks in advance for your help
> >
> >For ssh, have you seen e.g.
> >http://www.noah.org/ssh/cygwin-sshd.html
> >? I haven't done that in a long time, but have
> >used cygrunsrv to run a buildbot server in cygwin for some time.
>
> If you've followed this mailing list for any length of time you'd notice
> that we don't really endorse the instructions from random other web
> sites. They are often out-of-date and contain needless instructions.
> This web site is no exception. The CYGWIN= suggestion is wrong.
>
> Just use the instructions from /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README
>
> Btw, Corinna, this file suggests setting ntsec. That likely should
> just be deleted.
Wow, thank for the reminder. I didn't change that file for ages.
I ripped off any unneeded stuff now and only describe how to set up the
host and user config, as well as how to build with cygport.
I sent a patch upstream, so this will be available in the next OpenSSH
version.
Corinna
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-02 8:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-01 22:15 markov
2013-07-01 23:08 ` Dan Kegel
2013-07-02 0:34 ` Christopher Faylor
2013-07-02 2:07 ` Dan Kegel
2013-07-02 8:19 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
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