Hello, It is my understanding that JSch implements the IETF protocol standard very strictly. And the sftp protocol standard tries exactly to get you away from having to know what OS name or version is running remotely -- since the protocol should be standardized and the same across all OS names and types.
You could look up Sftp on Wikipedia, and the Wikipedia References will bring you to the official protocol standard discussion on IETF: http://tools.ietf.org/wg/secsh/draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer/ The standard RFC is now at version 13, but it is my understanding that there are practically no servers out there in the wild which implement the latest standard revisions -- v3 (!) seems to be the most widely used revision if I'm not mistaken. The protocol does give support for querying the protocol revision that the server supports, and it does give you a String identifying the remote server software (e.g. "Remote protocol version 1.99, remote software version OpenSSH_3.9p1" You can see that version String under "debug1" if you use a commandline client, e.g. sftp -vv myhost That would be the SSH Server's version, the sftp protocol version can be seen with "debug2:" later in the log: " debug2: Remote version: 3" Hope that helps, -- Martin Oberhuber, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Wind River Target Management Project Lead, DSDP PMC Member http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of srikanth k.m > Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 10:23 AM > To: jsch-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [JSch-users] (no subject) > > Hi all, > > I am trying to check if there is any way by which we can get the > Operating system name of the machine where the SFTP server is running. > > FTP Protocol provides a method getSystemName() that returns the OS > name. Is there something similar for SFTP too? > > > Thanks > -- > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move > Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & > win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event > anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > JSch-users mailing list > JSch-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jsch-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ JSch-users mailing list JSch-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jsch-users
