Unable to connect to a desktop in same network but different domain

Question

I can connect to a PC in the same domain as mine using paramiko client. Cygwin server is running on the remote PC.

 ssh.connect('135.24.237.170',username = 'cyg_server',password = 'force')

This PC 135.24.237.170 is in a domain named 'lsi-PC' which is same as my laptop.

But, for another PC '135.24.237.190' which is in my network but in a different domain (Domain name is Admin-PC) what should be the code to connect to it? Though cygwin is successfully installed and SSHD is running but still when I connect and try to execute a command it fails. I believe its happening because it is in a different domain.

Answer 1

For the PC in the other domain running ssh daemon, have you tried exporting your domain users and groups?

Another clue that you need to export is if you get a message like:

Your group is currently "mkpasswd". This indicates that the /etc/passwd (and possibly /etc/group) files should be rebuilt. See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run mkpasswd -l [-d] > /etc/passwd mkgroup -l [-d] > /etc/group Note that the -d switch is necessary for domain users. To export domain users:

$ mkpasswd -d >> /etc/passwd To export groups:

$ mkgroup > /etc/group

https://benbiddington.wordpress.com/2010/08/04/ssh-cygwin-and-domain-users/

Also mentioned here: "Setting up a Cygwin OpenSSH Server for Windows Domains on a TADDM Gateway Server"

Then you can try SSHing to the computer in the other domain with a username that looks like DOMAIN_username