From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Iibpb-0007qw-IH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:19:00 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l9IK7BlR002678; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:07:11 GMT Received: from dcnode-01.unlimitedmail.net (139.Red-80-26-111.staticIP.rima-tde.net [80.26.111.139]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l9IK2Lgd029611 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:02:21 GMT Received: from ppp.zz ([137.204.208.98]) (authenticated bits=0) by dcnode-01.unlimitedmail.net (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l9IK1cNt024151 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:01:38 +0200 From: Etaoin Shrdlu To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: ssh/scp on XP and gentoo Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:03:28 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710182203.29190.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> X-UnlimitedMail-MailScanner-From: shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: 655c3311-2f93-4b97-bdef-c9e9331cf9f9 X-Archives-Hash: d8268d9f7eb46e7dc2150e15e6316ded On Thursday 18 October 2007, James wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to run ssh/scp on XP and Vista. However there seems to be > losts of different ideas about how best to do this. [1] It seems to me that those mentioned in that page are only different implementations of ssh clients and tools, but not different ideas. > I need to be able to selective scp various files from a windows system > to a gentoo system, so I do not want to be limited to the cygwin > installation tree of files. [2] > > I'd be curious what folks on this list recommend, or any other > software for such interoperability between gentoo and XP/vista > systems. I can only speak for XP, since so far I've not had many chances to work with vista. In the past I've used winscp, pscp (from putty), and scp (from http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net), and I've never had a problem. About the more general topic of linux/windows interoperability: you can of course use samba to share folders and transfer files. Also, depending on your needs and security concerns, even simple plain ftp might be suitable. Using a slightly different approach, you can use rdesktop to log into windows and have selected linux drives/directories available inside windows (see man rdesktop, the "-r" switch). I find this very handy when there is no previous setup between the two boxes, and I don't want to set up a full fledged ssh or samba only to transfer some files. Hope this helps. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list