On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:14:33 +0100, Invisible wrote:

>>> When I looked, I couldn't find any precompiled Windows binaries for
>>> OpenSSH anywhere.
>>
>> They are available now.  Cygwin has also been around for a while, and
>> includes an sshd server (in fact, a couple of the versions I found for
>> Windows were essentially stripped down installations of cygwin).
> 
> Wouldn't that mean that once you connect in, your shell can only execute
> Cygwin binaries?

Absolutely not.  Go read up on what Cygwin is and how it works.

> (Not that this matters if you're only trying to forward ports...)
> 
> Quite why you need a complete Unix emulator to run something that only
> sends and receives data over network ports I don't know, but anyway...

That's how Cygwin is set up.  It's not the only solution, just an example.

Jim

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