Re: ssh tunnel works with putty.exe but fails with plink.exe

From: Todd Zervas (Todd.A.Zervas_at_boeing.com)
Date: 08/11/04


Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 16:25:45 GMT

I still don't get it, but I no longer care. Doing "putty -load sessionname"
from
cmd.exe works just as well. Who needs plink when putty will do ...

"Todd Zervas" <Todd.A.Zervas@boeing.com> wrote in message
news:I28yI4.Avx@news.boeing.com...
> I am establishing a ssh tunnel between a Windows XP client running putty /
> plink 0.55 and a Linux server running OpenSSH 3.4p1 (RedHat 8.0).
> Using putty.exe and the Tunnelling configuration screen, I can setup a
local
> port tunnel, save it as a session, and it works just fine. No problems.
I
> can log in, then start MS Query (yes, I know) and it uses the tunnel and
> everything works.
>
> But when I use plink.exe in a cmd.exe shell to make the same connection,
MS
> Query hangs. I do "plink -load sessionname" and I get a connection
prompt,
> I log in, the command shell on the server is available, but MS Query hangs
> waiting for a connection when I try to connect. Same with MS Access. The
> plink -v option shows the same event messages that putty shows -- the
tunnel
> is opened at the expected time but nothing seems to go through.
>
> I don't get it. The same connection with the same app works great when I
> log in using putty.exe. But plink.exe, nothing. What have I done wrong?
I
> can't believe I've found a bug.
>
>



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