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Ok, so as some of you know I work in IT. I do a lot of server management done mostly via SSH with the command line. During the day I just use the Terminal on my MacBrook Pro, but in the evenings it would be nice to be able to do a quick check of the servers from my PC so I am trying to find a good SSH client for windows vista.

I currently use PuTTY, but it just feels like a program out of the early 90's.

Does anyone else use SSH from Vista, and if so what program do you use?

Use this version of putty. http://haanstra.eu/putty/

I use SecureCRT but it's commercial:

http://www.vandyke.com/products/securecrt/index.html

Back in the really old days (like early 90s) the non-SSH version (CRT) was the best terminal emulation program I could find for the PC and so I've been using it since then.

PuTTY works fine too, I'm just too used to SecureCRT now and there's no reason for me to switch.

See, while I do a lot of CLI work, I wish the CLI was a bit more pleasing on the eye.

I could never use this seriously cause it just looks anciant.

(http://www.vandyke.com/images/screenshots/securecrt/scrt62tab_crop.gif)

Thats PuTTYtray is a tad better, but for all the people who use SSH you would think someone would have made a more graphically pleasing version. There have got to be more people than myself who are slaves to the looks of a thing.

If you want the CLI to look better, use a better font and colors. It's not like a terminal emulation program can suddenly put a GUI on top of a Unix shell. If you think the icons look bad just get rid of them. They aren't needed anyways.

I never look at my SSH program longer than it takes me to establish the connection, since all I'm doing is forwarding ports for other apps to use (port 80 for intranet, etc) so I don't care much how it looks.  PuTTY works fine for me.

I admin a smb with *nix back end with Vista.

Putty is all I ever use with a lot of customized sessions (generally tons of forwarding/proxies) generally running ~12 sessions during the work day. Putty is pretty rock solid for this and not lacking in major features. The only thing I can think of missing is maybe tabbing(offset by having separate processes) and transparency.


This... I really don't understand what your looking for, transparency and tabbing is the only thing I can possibly think of.

I like using Bitvise's Tunnelier (http://www.bitvise.com/tunnelier).  I've used their SSHD as well for a couple of Window's servers.

Sounds to me like you are asking for a nicer front end for remote CLI management of Windows machines?  Or also file transfers?  Just trying to determine what you are looking for.  I probably won't be much help since PuTTY feels very, very new to me. :oh_i_see:

That Bitvise thing looks nice, I'll try that.

Heh, I'm with you.  I mean, it's got, like, color fonts and stuff.  Anyway, if I shell into something I generally jump straight into VIM or EMACS and do all my CLI stuff from in there since it's about 10x more useful, so for me there would be pretty much no difference anyway.  Either that, or if I want a full desktop experience, I VNC.

Learn to use GNU screen behind a putty terminal.  But change the escape key from ^a to something else.  That's just dumb.  I use `

At work, I use PenguiNet.

Only uses xterm and vt100, so pass.  I tried getting xterm to do nice things but gave up some time ago; currently resigned to aixterm.

Took me this long to figure out how to import my keys.