[gentoo-user] OT: ssh/scp on XP and gentoo
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]. 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. [1] http://www.openssh.com/windows.html [2] http://www.jfitz.com/tips/ssh_for_windows.html#Should_I_use_SSH_or_a_VPN James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: ssh/scp on XP and gentoo
Hi James, 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]. 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. [1] http://www.openssh.com/windows.html [2] http://www.jfitz.com/tips/ssh_for_windows.html#Should_I_use_SSH_or_a_VPN openssh is somewhat out of date - best you use CopSSH which installs both an sshd and an ssh client. Alternatively, you have the following options: PuTTY for a command line ssh client which will also use public key authentication, instead of password authentication. Filezilla, for a ftp/sftp client (at this moment it only uses passwd authentication). WinSCP which can use a PuTTY style private/public key authentication. You should be able to dig out the relevant links in Google, otherwise give me a shout. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: ssh/scp on XP and gentoo
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
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: ssh/scp on XP and gentoo
On Thursday 18 October 2007 20:00:51 James wrote: 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]. 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] cygwin doesn't limit you to the cygwin install. /cygdrive, or something, contains links to the windows filesystem. -- Mike Williams -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: ssh/scp on XP and gentoo
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:00:51 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd be curious what folks on this list recommend, or any other software for such interoperability between gentoo and XP/vista systems. I, too, highly recommend PuTTY. It has lots of nice options, and needs no installation, but rather will happily run straight from download. It's tiny and fast, and supports telnet, rsh, and some others, as well as SSH. The putty people also put out a SCP client, but I didn't much like it; working from the command line in windows is just so painful. I recommend against FTP becuase I find it too inflexible for my needs. I find the ability to put a file anywhere on the system, and for any user, without requiring a complete login session, much better. Finally, if you wish to use Samba you should be able to do so over vpn. I have used Samba-over-VPN with much success, and strongly recommend openVPN for this task. It doesn't make file transferring any different, it just puts all the computers on the same network -- making it that much easier to run these services securely, since they don't have to listen on external ports. -- Dan Farrell PS: I bet there's some windoze-side support for rsync these days too. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
