Googled this to death, cannot resolve. I cannot connect to my CYGWIN sshd from another machine. Netstat shows connection is established. Can connect locally, no problem.
[oracle@aserver ~]$ ssh myid@mycomp
ssh: connect to host mycomp port 22: Connection refused
On mycomp:
$ netstat -a | grep ssh
TCP MYCOMP:ssh MYCOMP.mydomain.com:0 LISTENING
TCP MYCOMP:1161 aserver.mydomain.com:ssh ESTABLISHED
Successful login from the localhost:
$ ssh myid@mycomp
myid@mycomp's password:
Last login: Tue Sep 14 14:27:30 2010 from mycomp.mydomain.com
Fanfare!!!
You are successfully logged in to this server!!!
I'm on XP sp3, updated CYGWIN today. Tried cleanup and reconfigure, didn't help.
Cleanup (credit to Herb Maeder http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-10/msg00370.html) :
# Remove sshd service
cygrunsrv --stop sshd
cygrunsrv --remove sshd
# Delete any sshd or related users (such as cyg_server) from /etc/passwd
# (use your favorite editor)
# Delete any sshd or relaged users (such as cyg_server) from the system
net user sshd /delete
Configure:
$ ssh-host-config -y
*** Query: Overwrite existing /etc/ssh_config file? (yes/no) yes
*** Info: Creating default /etc/ssh_config file
*** Query: Overwrite existing /etc/sshd_config file? (yes/no) yes
*** Info: Creating default /etc/sshd_config file
*** Info: Privilege separation is set to yes by default since OpenSSH 3.3.
*** Info: However, this requires a non-privileged account called 'sshd'.
*** Info: For more info on privilege separation read /usr/share/doc/openssh/README.privsep.
*** Query: Should privilege separation be used? (yes/no) yes
*** Info: Note that creating a new user requires that the current account have
*** Info: Administrator privileges. Should this script attempt to create a
*** Query: new local account 'sshd'? (yes/no) yes
*** Info: Updating /etc/sshd_config file
*** Query: Overwrite existing /etc/inetd.d/sshd-inetd file? (yes/no) yes
*** Info: Creating default /etc/inetd.d/sshd-inetd file
*** Info: Updated /etc/inetd.d/sshd-inetd
*** Warning: The following functions require administrator privileges!
*** Query: Do you want to install sshd as a service?
*** Query: (Say "no" if it is already installed as a service) (yes/no) yes
*** Query: Enter the value of CYGWIN for the daemon: []
*** Info: The sshd service has been installed under the LocalSystem
*** Info: account (also known as SYSTEM). To start the service now, call
*** Info: `net start sshd' or `cygrunsrv -S sshd'. Otherwise, it
*** Info: will start automatically after the next reboot.
*** Info: Host configuration finished. Have fun!
myid@MYCOMP /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/myid
$ cygrunsrv -S sshd
myid@MYCOMP /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/myid
$ cygrunsrv -Q sshd
Service : sshd
Display name : CYGWIN sshd
Current State : Running
Controls Accepted : Stop
Command : /usr/sbin/sshd -D