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PuTTy Ported To Pocket PC 35

Posted by timothy from the lifesaver-for-every-thumbdrive dept.
LondonLawyer writes "There was a Slashdot story back in March about a port of the popular (and free) SSH client PuTTY in beta for Symbian OS. For the rest of us there's a 'pre alpha' port that has been released for the Pocket PC that seems to have slipped under the Slashdot radar. 2003 is available now and by all acounts works well. 2000/2002 are apparently in the pipeline for a planned June release. See here ( http://pocketputty.duxy.net/ ) for more details. The download can be found here. They are also talking about porting to MS Smartphone 2003 after the Pocket PC 2002 port has been done."
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  • 2004 works too! (Score:4, Funny)

    by richie2000 ( 159732 ) <rickard.olsson@gmail.com> on Wednesday May 12, 2004 @10:06AM (#9126706) Homepage Journal
    2003 is available now and by all accounts works well.

    I have used 2004 for over four months now, and I'm pretty satisfied with it so far, as years go.

  • PuTTY (Score:2, Informative)

    by wolf31o2 ( 778801 )

    This just goes to show how nice a program PuTTY can be and how much the world needs a simple, yet powerful and FREE SSH client.

    • Re:PuTTY (Score:5, Interesting)

      by cyb97 ( 520582 ) * <cyb97@noxtension.com> on Wednesday May 12, 2004 @10:17AM (#9126824) Homepage Journal
      It still amazes me that Microsoft haven't thought of adding a ssh-client to their operatingsystems. An OS lacking a ssh-client is pretty much useless to me.
      When they get ssh and X11 clients, even Windows might seem like an alternative...
      • "It still amazes me that Microsoft haven't thought of adding a ssh-client to their operatingsystems."

        Doesn't one of the s's in ssh stand for 'secure'?

      • Re:PuTTY (Score:4, Insightful)

        by cyborch ( 524661 ) on Wednesday May 12, 2004 @11:08AM (#9127593) Homepage Journal

        Adding ssh would either imply that MS acknowledges that there is a need to connect to other OS'es or mean that a sshd should be added too. Adding sshd to windows would be rather useless since almost nothing can be done via the command line on windows. Either way adding ssh to windows draws attention to areas where windows is lacking.

        • Actually, I ssh into my windows box sometimes... I use the cygwin software to run the daemon and it "just works", of course it gives me a bash prompt...

          There are some userfull things that you can do using the command prompt on windows, the only problem I find is that they put unix to shame in the cryptic category, and seem more oriented toward scripting then interactive sessions.

          I also only know a few tricks and never bother to leave telnet open on the servers, so usually I can't try, ssh on windows(stand
          • Driven by my distaste for Win32 console windows (they are slow and anoying to copy and paste to/from) I often run cmd.exe in an xterm using cygwin and XFree in the multiwindow mode. I too frequently ssh into this system, as well as using smbclient.

            • Re:PuTTY (Score:1, Interesting)

              by Anonymous Coward
              cmd.exe is not the useful windows command line. Windows Scripting Host is. At least, if you write a primitive REPL in JScript, it is.

          • Now, I wonder if I can use PuTTY to tunnel 3389, and then run the terminal server client on the pocket PC.
            That would be great. I just wrote a client that actually makes this EASY for Windows...

        • Re:PuTTY (Score:3, Informative)

          by RzUpAnmsCwrds ( 262647 )
          "Adding sshd to windows would be rather useless since almost nothing can be done via the command line on windows."

          You might want to check on that one:

          "The Windows Server 2003 family provides a significantly enhanced command-line infrastructure, letting administrators perform most management tasks without using a graphical user interface. Of special importance is the ability to perform a wide range of tasks by accessing the information store enabled by Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). This WMI com
          • [...]rivals the power of other operating systems often associated with higher cost of ownership.[...]


            Guess it just goes to show that Microsoft believe in the "just repeat it often enough and it becomes true" principle(*). :)
        • Adding sshd to windows would be rather useless since almost nothing can be done via the command line on windows.

          Open mouth, insert foot. :-)

          A case of I-don't-know-so-it-can't-be-done expert, eh?
      • PuTTY is a 3rd party Windows ssh client, available for many years. Why should M$ make everything part of its OS? Do you have some love for bloatware, or monopolies?
        • Why is notepad.exe a part of the OS?
          Certain utilities is necessary and so popular that it would make sense to include it in the OS. Especially with RDP already included, it just doesn't make sense to not include ssh.
          • Functional necessity was not sufficient reason to include notepad.exe . It was a "chicken and egg" solution when Windows was released, before third parties offered software for it. So including it was necessary, because that was the only way to get it. ssh is different: it is already offered by a third party. Microsoft's inclusion of ssh would serve only to compete (unfairly) with a successful software vendor. Why doesn't getting a third party ssh make sense to you?
            • In the same way getting a 3rd party browser doesn't make sense to me.
              When I roam around and find myself destined to sit behind a windows machine, the first thing I do is figure out how to SSH into a friendly box.
              That's how I do my business, mail, news, etc. Going out and getting a 3rdparty client isn't always an option, policies, rules and regulations usually try to stop users from installing things therefore an included client would make sense.
              I'm more productive with ssh than solitaire.exe...
      • Cygwin/X All ya need. :) Posix layer with function X Server and OpenSSH client and server. Fully integrates security with window Active Directory when used on 2003 enterprise server.

  • And if you are on a Palm (Score:3, Informative)

    by SLot ( 82781 ) on Wednesday May 12, 2004 @12:34PM (#9129029) Homepage Journal
    Mochasoft [mochasoft.dk] has you covered with this product. Sadly, not free, but it's only nagware to use as a demo.

    I've had it on my Treo600 since I got the thing, and it's a lifesaver at times (like the time I patched some of our servers at 1:30am from a strip club). :)

  • Series 60 version (Score:4, Informative)

    by polyp2000 ( 444682 ) on Wednesday May 12, 2004 @01:20PM (#9129764) Homepage Journal
    I have found the Series 60 version very useful to.

    http://s2putty.sourceforge.net/

    Works like a dream on my Nokia 6600

  • Sufferin' succotash! (Score:3, Funny)

    by JasonMaggini ( 190142 ) on Wednesday May 12, 2004 @04:55PM (#9132830)
    For some reason, I pictured Sylvester the cat reading that headline, just spitting everywhere...
  • Palm has had SSH clients for a while. Why did it take so long to port this to PocketPC? If anything, I would have assumed that PPC, with its more desktop-like APIs, would have had this sort of thing for longer.

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