On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Alex McLintock wrote: > Is the consensus to use putty if you have to use ssh from Windows?
Aside from the previously mentioned bit that you can't print directly through putty, then yes. It does ssh2, for starters, which meant I could finally disable ssh1 on my servers, can do session forwarding, has matching scp/sftp programs and all sorts of other goodness. Also, it's a bit more actively supported, plus it doesn't 'install' it's just a single binary (that fits on a floppy) so it doesn't leave a mess if you want to use it on other peoples machines. It's the ssh2 thing that does it for me though (and where the thread started off about not wanting to leave ssh1 running on your servers) the hatter
