Quote Originally Posted by DMK View Post
Turns out this was caused by a password error - the instructions I followed to install the CYGWIN server were missing a key step that involved recreating the password for the cyg_server user in /etc/passwd and as a result, it was causing the above error (which doesn't mention passwords at all!)
Thank you so much for the feedback DMK - sooner or later this is going to help somebody else facing similar issue.