Regarding remote access to windows machines, there are several options: - Remote powershell (not my area, so not sure how viable this is) - Use pexec from sysinternals to run cmd.exe remotely (probably on local network only, and only from other windows machines, so probably not that helpful) - Windows comes with a telnet server (obviously not very secure, but you could use stunnel/vpn or similar to help here) - WinRM (and pywinrm as has been mentioned). Note that vagrant either does or will soon support talking to Windows VMs using this method. - SSH: it is possible to set up an ssh server to work on Windows, but is...non-trivial (i.e. hard) and many caveats apply. See freesshd or KpyM.
There are also some GUI options: - RDP - the venerable VNC Obvioiusly the GUI options are more difficult to automate. On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 6:28 AM, Paul Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9 November 2014 12:21, Tim Golden <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think the OP was speaking not so much about having the technical > > wherewithal to use RDP but rather about the experience of RDP vs SSH. > > That was certainly my understanding. The key issue for me is to try to > make the process of just running "pip wheel myproject" or "pip wheel > git+https://github.com/me/myproject"; as simple and painless as > possible for people without Windows experience. > > That's somewhat optimistic, because if the command fails with an > error, the developer is still going to need to work out how to debug > why the code isn't portable, etc. But that's a whole different > situation, and well out of scope. > > > The > > difficulty is that Windows doesn't really "think" in ssh. I believe there > > are (third-party) mechanisms to provide ssh-like access, but I don't know > > how successful they really are. > > Yeah, that's where things like cygwin probably won't work well, > because you don't get the "normal" Windows environment. But it might > be possible - after all, see above - it's really only a few simple > commands we need to support. > > Paul > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > -- -- Kevin Horn
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