SSHing into a Windows Server on Amazon’s EC2
What looked at first like a simple task – turned out to cost me hours of trial and error. Some of the problems I’ve encountered: Cygwin’s SSHd, OpenSSH and CopSSH all work great on Windows EC2 instances. Until you try to bundle an instance. After you launch a bundled instance – the SSHd service wouldn’t run, because of permissions problems – and throws weird error messages in the different logs. It turned out that Sysprep was responsible for this –…