Anyone know what is going on here?
In a nutshell, after a reboot service X is only accessible through zonealarm if it is restarted.
I have cygwin running as a service on an XP PC with zonelarm.
If I stop and stop the service I can use putty on another PC to ssh tunnel in successfully.
If I do not have zonelarm running and reboot I can again connect using putty.
But if I reboot with zonelarm running putty hangs ie it does not come back with a login prompt. Yet zonealarm log shows that the incoming connection (port 22) is allowed and cygwin (sshd.exe) is allowed internet access. Now if I restart the service and try putty again it works. So I have a script to manually start the service after a reboot and this seems to be working, at least for the past couple of days. But what is going on?
I tried removing zonealarms settings for the service and answered yes when zonelarm popped up questions as to whether to allow access but this made no difference.