Over the past six months I’ve spent more and more time working through SSH to remote hosts, and I’ve been looking for a really satisfying set of client-side tools for use on Windows 2000 workstations. It’s not perfect yet, but it’s getting very workable.
What I want is something that will expose a remote file system over SSH but so far I’ve been making do with the somewhat clunky remote editing capabilities available in SSH’s SecureShell and now VanDyke’s SecureFX. Putty‘s got great features (like keep-alive pings) and an unbeatable price ($0) but you need to pair it with something like WinSCP to handle file transfers in a GUI.
I found a nice open-source Java library for SSH support called MindTerm and some Ant tasks to work with it that needed some help. The combination makes it easy to SCP files to/from remote hosts securely from within Ant scripts, a very good thing.
So far, there seems to be a lot to like about the VanDyke offerings, and the prices are very reasonable.
My old friend Daniel Gross claims to be close to tunneling Samba through SSH, which would be enough to get me back to reading the Samba docs again.
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