Hi, here are a couple of observations (not on Windows).

• You are not using strict or warnings, so you prevented Perl from telling you about any errors or warnings it finds.

• You are trying to append the error string with + which is the numeric addition operator. You need the string concatenation operator .

• You are using double quotes around your hostname, so Perl is trying to expand a (non-existent?*) array `@10` and the resulting host is invalid: I got "Bad port 'viking.0.0.29'". You need single quotes.

• After fixing those things I got "# file object not yet found at /Users/1nickt/.libnet-openssh-perl/6c2386dc6c577f876ea5abdc069663a6, state:_STATE_LOGIN" from the debug ad infinitum, as expected. (BTW I know that's a private net, but one hopes those are not real credentials in your OP.)

Hope this helps!

(*) I don't understand where this array is found and don't have time to deparse the code right now.

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