See documentation for details about "Error skipping startup message" error.

Just set up:

shell = /bin/sh
uncheck "lookup groups"
choose windows carriage returns

And map the default remote directory to one of your cygdrive mounts, e.g. /cygdrive/C

I managed to get it running with the following settings:
Shell
- Shell: /bin/sh
- EOL characters: CR/LF [13/10] (Windows)
- Do not "Lookup user groups"

WinSCP requires UNIX-style shell. Author of OpenSSH for Windows used to have description, how to setup WinSCP, but as the project is closed, it is not accessible any more.

Here is the copy of my log...
It logs in successfully and then immediatly logs me off..never gives me a success window or files to view ect.. I have tried changing the default shell to /bin/bash.

WinSCP Version 2.1.0 (Build 119)
. Login time: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 10:04:57 AM
. --------------------------------------------------------------------------
. Session name: hbennett@xxxxxxxxxxx.com
. Host name: xxxxxxxxxxxxx.com (Port: 22)
. User name: hbennett (Password: Yes, Key file: No)
. SSH protocol version: 1; Compression: No
. Agent forwarding: No; TIS/CryptoCard: No; KI: Yes
. Ciphers: aes,blowfish,3des,WARN,des; Ssh2DES: No
. Ping interval: 0 sec (0 = off); Timeout: 15 sec
. SSH Bugs: A,A,A,A,A,A,A,
. Proxy: none
. Return code variable: Autodetect; Lookup user groups: Yes
. Shell: default, EOL: 0
. Local directory: default, Remote directory: home, Update: No
. Clear aliases: Yes, Unset nat.vars: Yes
. Alias LS: No, Ign LS warn: Yes, Scp1 Comp: No
. --------------------------------------------------------------------------
. Looking up host "xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com"
. Connecting to 65.80.49.86 port 22
. Server version: SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_3.4p1
. We claim version: SSH-2.0-PuTTY-Local: Jan 12 2003 19:45:16
. Using SSH protocol version 2
. Doing Diffie-Hellman group exchange
. Doing Diffie-Hellman key exchange
. Host key fingerprint is:
. ssh-rsa 1024 a0:16:8b:dc:ab:0b:9e:37:6b:16:34:36:fd:85:73:e7
. Initialised AES-256 client->server encryption
. Initialised AES-256 server->client encryption
. Keyboard-interactive authentication refused
. Sent password
! Access denied
. Access denied
. Keyboard-interactive authentication refused
. Sent password
. Access granted
. Opened channel for session
. Started a shell/command
. --------------------------------------------------------------------------
. Doing startup conversation with host (shell).
. Skipping host startup message (if any).
> echo "WinSCP: this is end-of-file:0"
< Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]

< (C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.

<

[b]< (DAWGNUTZ) C:\Program Files\NetworkSimplicity\ssh>"WinSCP: this is end-of-file:0"[/b]

* (ECommand) Error skipping startup message.
. Closing connection.


Thanks... Much Appricated.
Haddon Bennett[b][/b]