ssh_exchange_identification error

[Michael A. Price]

>
> Hello,
>
> I hope you guys can help, I have searched all around the internet for 
> the answer to this problem, with no help.
>
>
> OS: Win2k Sp4 Server
>
> I have installed and uninstalled OpenSSH manually and through the 
> uninstall script a number of times with no luck.
>
> I think this problem came about during an IP change of the server, but 
> I have changed it back to hopefully fix the problem with no luck.
>
> The OpenSSH service is configured to start on boot automatically in 
> the OS. But when I reboot the server I can not ssh into the system 
> from another system or locally.
> The error I get back is ssh_exchange_identification on the client 
> side. To fix this problem, I log into the server and bring up the DOS 
> Prompt and restart the service with the following commands:
>
> net stop opensshd
> net start opensshd
>
>
> And then it works great, we run this service on many systems with no 
> problems....
>
> Please help, michael a. price
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