Re: Which shell / terminaltype for SSH Tectia for Windows?

Hi Nico,

You got me wrong.
My setup:
- Client: XP running Putty
- Server: Windows 2003 Server running SSH.COM Tectia 4.05 sshd server

My problem:
I start up Putty on my XP, connect to the remote server with ssh, log into
Tectia, and see a shell, provided by the CMD.EXE program on the Windows 2003
Server. This shell does not look and feel the way I want it to. Now, I
cannot execute commands, that clears the screen, among these "vim.exe" and
"telnet localhost 25". I want a shell, just like the one I start from
Start-> Run-> CMD.EXE locally on the Windows 2003 server.

My question:
Can I configure Tectia or Putty or CMD.EXE to get the shell that I want?
Should I use a different program instead of CMD.EXE?

PS: I spend 3 hours trying to install openssh (cygwin-sshd) on Windows2003
with no luck, the deamon wont start, keeps complaining that keys could not
be read.

Best regards
Peter



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Peter Juuls wrote:
This may be a newbie question, but the SSH.COM knowledge base doesn't
give me an answer, my one-year-support at SSH.COM has expired, so I
hope somebody on this group can help.

My remote Windows2003 server runs SSH Tectia 4.05 Server. I connect
from XP using putty 0.58 or the SSH non-commercial client version
3.2.9. I want my ssh-connection to behave as a CMD command-prompt
started from Windows. This is my ssh welcoming text
-----------------------------------------------
Microsoft Windows [Version 5.2.3790]
(C) Copyright 1985-2003 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\sshuser1>
-----------------------------------------------

Typing "telnet localhost 25" at the command line, launches something
somewhere on the server. But I just can't see it. My prompt
immediately returns to "C:\Documents and Settings\sshuser1>" instead
of showing me the telnet output. On unix I would see the telnet
output.

Port 25? That's the SMTP port, for email, not the port for SSH. I suspect
you want port 22.

A similar issue is the command "vim.exe", which hangs my ssh-session,
the output from vim is not shown to me, but the keyboard input is
sent to a invisible vim-session, and enables me to quit vim and
return to the ssh window. Vim outputs "Vim: Warning: Output is not to
a terminal".

Can you install OpenSSH on an alternative port and test with that?

Q: How can I configure Tectia (or the ssh client) to show me the
output? (My "Terminal provider"-setting in Tectia is the default,
"cmd.exe", putty settings are default)

I don't know for Tectia, but you can easily install CygWin with the
OpenSSH client and use "ssh -v" with as many -v's as you need to display
as much as possible of the connection.



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