On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Jim Cheetham <j...@gonzul.net> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Craig Falconer > <cfalco...@totalteam.co.nz> wrote: >> Bryce Stenberg wrote, On 19/03/10 15:11: >>> I need a good SSH client to use on my windows machine. >> >> PuTTY. It works, its free, and it works. > > Agreed. But it's "just" a terminal emulator.
putty is more than that. It will set up tunnels, do X11 forwarding, authenticate via keys and much more. I find it really useful from work (win environment) if I need to look at, eg, mythweb at home. I don't need to expose an insecure internal webserver to the net. I just connect via putty and my pre setup tunnels give me access to the various services at home. > >> Or you could install cygwin and compile up xterm and ssh for windows. > > Almost; install cygwin and use rxvt.exe to run bash; from there just > use ssh as 'normal'. This is probably the *best* option for anyone on > Windows who wants their PC to be as close an equal to their server as > possible. Same command line, mostly the same tools. cygwin is very big and unnecessarily complex for a simple ssh connection and doing some tunnelling. All IMHO.
