[TriLUG] a good ssh client for win2k

Jeremy P jeremyp at pobox.com
Mon Feb 18 11:48:19 EST 2002


On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, James Manning wrote:

> [Benjamin Reed]
> > Yup... PuTTY makes Windows usable... by letting you SSH to a real
> > OS.  <g>
> > 
> > Best of all, it's tiny for what it does (only a couple-hundred K)
> > so it's easy to just pull down when you need it.

The one thing Putty doesn't do is forward X connections, if you have a
Windows X server running.  This can be done quite easily with the "evil"
closed-source version from ssh.com .

--Jeremy




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