Dan, I'd think that the SSHD does a telnet into jBase, and on login the environment vars are set there. How would environment vars set by the SSHD relate to individual sessions? Especially (note from below) if the SSHD isn't even on the same system as jBase.
To answer Bob's question, yes, the SSHD accepts a connection on port X and then transfers that to port Y, but that's not so much "port forwarding" or tunneling, that's what an SSHD does. Point here is that no other software required. Regarding Bitvise - yeah it's great but the Cygwin solution is too, and it's free, and has more feature, and takes the same amount of time to setup. When someone thinks Cygwin, they might think "OS emulation" or "complex" or something similar. Actually I found it dirt-simple to install and there's even a MSI installer which does all of the initial setup in the same number of clicks as Bitvise. After that the configuration is of course different, but no more or less complex than any commercial offering. In my testing, I setup a virtual machine with Windows installed as the guest and with disk updates turned off. This allowed me to try and repeat the process as many times as necessary to understand it without doing anything permanent. I then did the Cygwin MSI and setup with OpenSSH. Then I did a SSH into that virtual which routed the telnet to another virtual which was actually running jBase. Once I confirmed everything was working I just repeated the process in the live box. >From there I could SSH or telnet to the live box at any time. Cygwin starts with windows as does its SSHD service so once it's running it's completely transparent. T > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Ell > > Bob, > > jBASE is simply a windows program. The SSH server has to run a script > that would set the environment variables, but there is nothing else > needed. > > Dan Ell > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob Rasmussen > > An add-on question: Once you settle on a Windows SSH server, what is > necessary to connect a client to jBase? Do you have to run an SSH > client, enable port forwarding, and then run a telnet client over that > tunnel? > > On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, Kevin Powick wrote: > > > > > On Monday, 26 November 2012 11:54:47 UTC-5, Dick Thiot wrote: > > > > > > We currently have a need to implement an SSH server for Windows > for > > > a jBASE server. Can others on the list let us know how you have > > > approached SSH servers on Windows for jBASE? > > > > > > > > I can highly recommend SSH Server from Bitvise ($99.95). Solid and > > feature packed. Easy to administer. Great SSH client available too. > > > > http://www.bitvise.com/ > > > > -- > > Kevin Powick -- -- IMPORTANT: T24/Globus posts are no longer accepted on this forum. To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en
