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Telnet server for windows
Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 4:28 pm
by Chris Corbyn
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
/sips beer, wishes someone was going out tonight.
Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 4:46 pm
by Ambush Commander
Erm... Cygwin?
Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 5:00 pm
by Chris Corbyn
Ambush Commander wrote:Erm... Cygwin?
<ding>
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?
Cheers

Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 5:02 pm
by Ambush Commander
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.
Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 5:08 pm
by Chris Corbyn
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.
Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 5:39 pm
by Chris Corbyn
I'm such a muppet

I dunno what I'm doing tonight...
http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net/download/