I'll preface this by saying anything I know about this comes from discussions I had with Kevin in CDP just over a year ago. Based on those discussions and very little pain from experimentation, I was able to get this stuff to work, and for free. That's the whole take-home here. I'm just conveying what I learned back then.
Yeah, awkward phrasing about "what an SSD does". My point was that you don't need SSHD and port-forwarding and tunneling because SSH already does that. Consider this client-side command: ssh -L <local-port-to-listen>:<remote-host>:<remote-port> Tunneling is sometimes defined the same as port forwarding but they're not exactly the same. The above command describes the tunneling of a connection from client to server, and subsequently the SSHD does port forwarding to the ultimate destination (the jBase telnetd). So if you're using SSH you don't need separate tunneling or port forwarding software, which seemed to be implied by prior notes. That was my point. As to many more features and the "such as" - that would be all features available in Cygwin, Linux software running under Windows, XTerm, and any number of command-line utilities like grep, awk, and sed. You don't get any of that with a product dedicated to being nothing more than a SSHD. As to installing Cygwin, you conveniently left out the sentence following the one you quoted where I said "After that the configuration is of course different, but no more or less complex than any commercial offering.". What I was talking about was the few number of clicks required to click setup, confirm a target directory, maybe confirm a EULA, and then click Finish. As to: "For laughs, I downloaded the latest version of Cygwin, ran the installer and immediately found myself asking, "now what", as I had to make decisions on choosing which packages to download. " .. " Click on that magic Cygwin icon and I get.. Wait for it. A command prompt." Speaking of laughs, that sounds just like the jBase installation. DOH! Look, I'm not going to play this game of fine-tuning words and splitting hairs on the nuances of specific implementations. People have enough information now to get more info. It's time to stop tossing fish and for people to use the fishing poles they have. Have a nice day. T -- -- 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
