Error: "Cannot initialize SFTP protocol. Is the host running a SFTP server?"

From: Michael Favor (no-spam_at_example.com)
Date: 03/25/04 

Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 01:05:22 GMT

Greetings,

I installed Openssh on a couple of Windows 2000 servers with cygwin, using
instructions I found on this web page:

    http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html

That worked fine on some servers, but on one I get an error when I try to
connect to it that says:

    "Cannot initialize SFTP protocol. Is the host running a SFTP server?"
and
    "Connection has been unexpectedly closed. Server sent command exit
status 1."

The authentication part seems to be working fine, it's only the SFTP part
that doesn't seem to be working. Any suggestions for how to troubleshoot
this would be greatly appreciated.

regards,
michael.

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