Telnet server for windows

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Chris Corbyn
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Telnet server for windows

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Can anyone recommend a decent *free* telnet server (or even better, SSH) for windows NT/XP ?

I barely use windows but I assumed it would be built-in as an option in "add/remove windows components" but I don't see it. They all seem to be shareware stuff I keep finding. I can see I'm gonna have a fun time attempting to work my way around windows without the GUI :roll:

/sips beer, wishes someone was going out tonight.
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Erm... Cygwin?
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Ambush Commander wrote:Erm... Cygwin?
<ding> :idea:

Hadn't thought of that.... are you referring to just having cygwin installed and then run openssh from there? Haven't played with cygwin much but could I set that to come on at boot without having a console window open?

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I'm not really sure how it would work, it was just the first thing that popped into mind. But I suppose that if you kept your computer on and daemonized the process, it would work out.
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Ambush Commander wrote:I'm not really sure how it would work, it was just the first thing that popped into mind. But I suppose that if you kept your computer on and daemonized the process, it would work out.
http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html

It's doable but there's a major flaw in that. It might as well be a linux box because you can't execute windows OS commands in cygwin (AFAIK). It would give me access to the filesystem, and some basic linux tools but not a lot else.... hmm... actually, that's all I need :) thanks bud.
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I'm such a muppet :P I dunno what I'm doing tonight...

http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net/download/
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