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My job is 95% Unix administration, but sometimes I manage Windows machines remotely. While I'm familiar enough with VNC and RDP solutions, there are times when I'd like something a little more lightweight for bandwidth reasons, as well as having a more familiar scripting environment and tool set.
I know there are several Unix layers for the Windows platform e.g. cygwin, uwin, WSU, and there are a handful of sshd servers. However, I'm not sure which ones give the most "unix-like" console experience, in terms of shells and standard utilities e.g. ps, top, tcpdump. Do these environments allow one to run the normal, stock command line utilities such as net, ipconfig, fsutil as well?
Any experiences, advice and hints welcome.
1@Geoff, @John: i've just run through this on my system with the latest cygwin 1.7.x. i don't believe the step editing /etc/defaults/etc/sshd_config is necessary; in particular this file is a default file, while /etc/sshd_config should be the one used by the daemon. the recommended change no longer seems necessary; the default value of that line is now
#Protocol 2
and you'd have to explicitly change that to allow protocol 1. (otherwise, good tips, thanks!) – quack quixote – 2010-04-19T11:44:06.1132Voted for a great, succinct primer. I'm still fine-tuning the install. I'll see if I can get what I need. – Geoff Fritz – 2010-01-18T03:41:36.027