On Thursday 18 October 2007, James wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to run ssh/scp on XP and Vista. However there seems to be > losts of different ideas about how best to do this. [1]
It seems to me that those mentioned in that page are only different implementations of ssh clients and tools, but not different ideas. > I need to be able to selective scp various files from a windows system > to a gentoo system, so I do not want to be limited to the cygwin > installation tree of files. [2] > > I'd be curious what folks on this list recommend, or any other > software for such interoperability between gentoo and XP/vista > systems. I can only speak for XP, since so far I've not had many chances to work with vista. In the past I've used winscp, pscp (from putty), and scp (from http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net), and I've never had a problem. About the more general topic of linux/windows interoperability: you can of course use samba to share folders and transfer files. Also, depending on your needs and security concerns, even simple plain ftp might be suitable. Using a slightly different approach, you can use rdesktop to log into windows and have selected linux drives/directories available inside windows (see man rdesktop, the "-r" switch). I find this very handy when there is no previous setup between the two boxes, and I don't want to set up a full fledged ssh or samba only to transfer some files. Hope this helps. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
