ssh Bad Packet Length

I'm trying to check out from an svn repository on Linux system. As a user on
the Linux system I created the repository. Logged in as that user on Windows
XP and using that user in the repository URL I have no problems with
authentication. When other users (including from my windows machine) try to
Checkout or browse the repository, it prompts for password, and then gives
the message that the Connection was closed. Looking at /var/log/secure shows
sshd complaining about Bad Packet Length. However I can ssh as any user from
the windows box to the linux server so it doesn't seem to "really" be an ssh
issue. Any ideas??? I'm using cygwin ssh as the ssh client.

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