Re: openssh cygwin: connection closed by remote host


kherring wrote:

I have installed OpenSSH V4.2 on a windows 98 box running cygwin so
that I can log in to it remotely. I am able to do so, but I have
noticed that after I log in/out say 5 or so complete round trips ( by
round trip I mean logging in then logging out), I get the following
message when trying to log in remotely:

ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host

From then on I am not able to connect remotely until I kill sshd.exe
and then restart it by doing so physically at the windows box. Any
ideas on why this might be happening. My apologies if this isn't the
correct newsgroup for this post. Thanks,

Never seen that problem, do you have any log error messages in Windows
event viewer - application? If you are using syslog then the messages
are in /var/log/messages.

If there are no errors then a possible cause is the configuration of
MaxStartups in your /etc/sshd_config, if you have it then look at the
man page to see what it means or just try running the daemon w/o it to
see if that solves the problem.
--
René Berber

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