AppLogic pre-school (ssh)?

[nobu]

Although most clients who would attend AppLogic university knows about SSH, some users may not know very well.

It would be helpful for them if we show the how-to session for installing one of SSH access tools on Win machine, for example.

* Putty <== the most popular?
I have it installed, but never used. Probably I should, to assist clients who use it. I don't know if we can use rmacro.sh
* TeraTerm <== Another term program
It's been around for years.
* Cygwin (Mingw) Bash shell and/or terminal in Cygwin X <== very convenient
Easy to install, using setup.exe of cygwin. We can use almost all unix commands on Windows files. Comes with man and info docs, as well as X server. rmacro.sh does work but we need to enter the rsa key for each command, due to the problem of cygwin ssh.
* Unix GUI running in VMWare <== possibly the best method for more experienced people.
Install VMware player, and download Ubuntu or any ready made appliance. And we can fully use rmacro.sh

For sftp, FileZilla, or the Filemanager in most unix GUI should be able to handle that.


Even with AppLogic GUI's own ssh/file upload&download interface, some people would prefer different methods, and it's good to have how-to explaning them.

[PeterNic]

Agree. Also it is interesting to see if we can find a "scp" client for Windows that unlike Putty's pscp uses real 'scp' (rather than 'sftp', per Lion). This will allos Windows clients to access live appliance's storage via AppLogic.

[nobu]

Cygwin's scp works for both mounted volumes and live volumes.
It's almost identical to Unix's scp.
Within Cygwin bash shell, we can use alias, shell function and environmental variables just like normal shell.
Many of rmacro.sh's feature works, too (other than the need to enter the rsa key on each command).

Probably we can use ming's scp and other ports, too.

[Karl]

I know this has been dug up by a spammer, but non the less. WinSCP is probably the best SCP tool for Windows.

[PeterNic]

(Karl, thanks, the spam message was deleted)

Thanks -- I got another report that WinSCP works well.

I know it would work for the impex volume and for already mounted volumes (in AppLogic 1.x-2.2); the GUI version won't work, I believe, for copying files to/from running appliances (I tried it); I am sure that the command line version can be tweaked with enough options to work (it shouldn't try to use bash commands and only use the scp protocol). If you know some options to make the GUI version work (even without directory browsing), please let me know.

I myself use cygwin's scp -- works quite well; the only drawback is that I haven't been able to integrate it with putty's ssh agent (it may be possible, though).

Regards,
-- Peter

[JeremyN]

You guys tried using OpenSSH For windows? Works well for me(http://sshwindows.sf.net).

-Jeremy