#16 "Cannot create window" messages, connectivity lost

[Anonymous]

sshd on a Windows NT server "decided" to stop working
a few days ago. A ssh -d4 user@address command
showed we were being disconnected by the server.

After some hunting around on the server I found a
\var\logs\OpenSSHd.log file with myriad messages like :

12 [win] sshd 658 Winmain: Cannot create window
C:\Program Files\OpenSSH\usr\sbin\sshd.exe: ***
WFSO failed, Win32 error 6

I have no idea what this is trying to tell me, nor what I
can do to recover connectivity...any ideas ?

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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D'oh! Sorry, forgot some details. This is OpenSSH-3.6.1,
and although it's a bit old, it's been working fine for a couple
of years. And of course the sysadmins for the box swear no
patches or changes were made around the time it stopped
working.

Nick Varley
nick.varley@capgemini.com

[Nick Varley]

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A reboot recovered the situation, but I'd still love to know
what the error messages meant and what else I could have
done about it...anyone...?