From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6866 invoked by alias); 30 Oct 2002 19:00:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 6791 invoked from network); 30 Oct 2002 19:00:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO scuzzy) (138.67.58.69) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 30 Oct 2002 19:00:09 -0000 Received: from glenn (helo=localhost) by scuzzy with local-esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 186y4S-00016E-00; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:00:04 -0700 Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:23:00 -0000 From: Glenn Murray X-X-Sender: glenn@scuzzy To: Tom Dorgan cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: inetd:ssh/telnet/ftp - Im too stupid to use these In-Reply-To: <20021030162728.93254.qmail@web20007.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2002-10/txt/msg01871.txt.bz2 Tom, I feel your pain. I've made an attempt to untangle this for beginners at http://www.mines.edu/~gmurray/ at the "SSH2 for Beginners" link. I mention it in the hope that it may be of some help. Good luck, Glenn On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Tom Dorgan wrote: > ok, I give up. > > I have set up cygwin on at least 20 machines over the last 4 years and I > have never gotten any of these to work right the first try. And, it seems > like every time I get telnet or ssh working, I did something different. > there seems to be no recipe for making them work. I, like many others, have > spent countless fruitless hours searching the web, the cygwin mailing list, > etc. > > right now, I have an xp box that can run ssh, but not telnet, a 2k box that > ran telnet until I started trying to get ssh working, another 2k box that > can only run ssh. none of them can run ftp. > > I'm not asking for help. I dont thing there is any. I'm just very tired and > frustrated. > > sorry, Im just not smart enough to use this stuff. > > tom dorgan. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/