[Web4lib] Windows Vista defaults to no telnet client

[John Fink]

John,

Would you mind telling me what advantage you see to buying the official ssh
client?  Perhaps it has some bells and whistles of which I'm unaware -- I've
only really ever used putty and openssh.

jf

On 10/25/06, John Fereira <jaf30 at cornell.edu> wrote:
>
> Raymond Wood wrote:
> > Allegedly, on Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 01:43:13PM -0400, Thomas Dowling
> stated:
> >
> >> http://www.windowsitpro.com/Articles/ArticleID/93952/93952.html
> >>
> >> Not the issue it once was, but Windows Vista will default to not
> >> having a telnet client; you can enable it, but it's several layers
> >> deep in the Control Panel.  Of course, since the Windows telnet app
> >> was chronically the worst telnet available, maybe that's a good thing.
> >>
> >> I'm just assuming that there's no ssh client either.
> >>
> >> Thomas Dowling
> >>
> >
> > I find that a combination telnet/ssh client such as 'putty' is
> > indispensible when I am working on the Windows platform.
> >
> > As a matter of interest, are there any other freeware[1] ssh clients
> > that people prefer over 'putty' (on Windows) ?
> >
> No.  We have a multi-use license for the SSH Secure Shell client
> (www.ssh.com) but for some things I prefer to use Putty (primarily for
> CVS tunneling)
>
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