Re: [SLE] How to allow ftp and telnet

Paul,

On Tuesday 28 February 2006 03:35, Paul Cartwright wrote:
On Tue February 28 2006 3:45 am, Randall R Schulz wrote:
You downloaded "it?" Cygwin? It's just like a Linux distribution
insofar as it comprises a great many packages totaling hundreds of
megabytes of tarballs formatted for the Cygwin installer (which is
what I suspect your downloaded, from the main page of cygwin.com).

you are correct, I downloaded the setup.exe from cygwin.

If you did just download the installer, beware that you've got a
big download ahead (which must be preceded by package selection,
unless you're willing to just go for the whole huge set of
packages).

how do you select these packages, and what do I look for/need/want to
install for ssh/sftp ?

Run the installer, step through the wizard-style interface and a few
screens in (after mirror selection) you get a hierarchical (two-level)
list of packages. The Cygwin installer leaves something to be desired,
but it's the only feasible way to install it.

You'll have to look in the Networking or Server categories (I don't know
the categories by memory, but it will be obvious which categories might
hold the SSH client and server software). The installer knows about
dependencies, so pick what you want and let it install whatever else is
required.

Cygwin can interface with the Windows service subsystem so your SSH
server runs automatically upon system start-up without any manual
action on your part. If you're running a server (want to log in there
via SSH), then this is a good choice.

Cygwin has its own mailing list (of course) where you'll find very much
the same kind of spirit of tolerance and forgiveness you've come to
know and love here in the SuSE-Linux-E list!


Cygwin is quite good and the only way to make Windows usable to
those of the Unix / Linux ilk such as myself. I immediately install
it on every Windows computer I must use on an ongoing basis.

once I get it "installed" and working I'll have a better idea what
you are talking about:) kinda hard to think about *NIX on a gates
box..

To a first approximation the Cygwin "experience" is much like the Linux
experience. The core of Cygwin, its DLL, creates a POSIX emulation
interface based upon the Windows kernel. With that available, things
like the Gnu tools and other open-source (Linux) packages can be ported
in a relatively straightforward manner. There are some visible seams
(path name and PATH variable syntax being salient ones) but for the
most part once installed and configured (configuration is pretty
minimal) you can open a BASH (or other common) shell and run all the
commands you're accustomed to using under Linux.


--
Paul Cartwright


Randall Schulz

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