Re: Putting together a server/network...

[Nicholas Janzen <nj@third-net.com>]

i love putty for both telnet (accessing cisco equipment) and ssh (mostly
openbsd and sun stuff)

I love that you don't have to "install" putty, it's a single file.

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On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Justin wrote:

> On Sunday 04 November 2001 04:28 am, you wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Steve Wingate
> > > [...]
> > > To Dr. Evil, yes you do have to explain to the guy holding
> > > the IT checkbook why he should spring for ssh client licenses
> > > for his Windows boxes when a free telnet client (not that I
> > > would use it) is included.
> >
> > 1. Free telnet client that comes with Windows is unusable. Period.
> > 2. The best SSH client for Windows is PuTTY and it's free. Commercial
> > SSH client from ssh.com can be used if you don't have putty, but it's
> > less convenient and should be used only if you need a graphical
> > replacement to scp - that feature is not present in PuTTY. Other SSH
> > clients - only if you like the alternative way of doing things.
> >
> > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
> >
> > I use WindowsNT as my main workstation for several years and tried a few
> > different telnet and lately SSH clients. I found that putty.exe, single
> > 200k file, is the best for both telnet and SSH (in my opinion).
> >
> > --
> > Andre
>
> Actually there is putty support for both sftp and scp
> putty- http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest/putty.exe
> pscp- http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest/pscp.exe
> psftp- ftp://ftp.tartarus.org/pub/people/owen/psftp-x86.exe
>
> I have used all 3 and they all work decently to extremely nicely.