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how to install ssh on windows xp?

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manishrathi

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I have windows xp on my laptop. I want to get ssh (secure shell) on my laptop. How can I get it ? I followed link http://[url]www.cygwin.com[/url] and saved setup.exe in c:cygwin. When I run setup.exe, I get an error message "setup.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience"
How can I install ssh and from where ?

Someone suggested me that it comes with windows xp. How can I check that its already available on my computer and how to use it ?

I tried one thing I downloaded putty.exe on laptop and double clicked it. Its asking for IP address, which I provided. Now when pressed enter, I am getting error message " Network error : Connection refused" , why is that ? How to solve this ?
Now I clicked ok on this message and I get "putty (inactive)" on the console.

So how to get ssh working ?

thanks
 
I have windows xp on my laptop. I want to get ssh (secure shell) on my laptop. How can I get it ? I followed link http://[url]www.cygwin.com[/url] and saved setup.exe in c:cygwin. When I run setup.exe, I get an error message "setup.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience"
How can I install ssh and from where ?

Someone suggested me that it comes with windows xp. How can I check that its already available on my computer and how to use it ?

I tried one thing I downloaded putty.exe on laptop and double clicked it. Its asking for IP address, which I provided. Now when pressed enter, I am getting error message " Network error : Connection refused" , why is that ? How to solve this ?
Now I clicked ok on this message and I get "putty (inactive)" on the console.

So how to get ssh working ?

thanks

http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net/
 
I would use putty (for command line access) and WinSCP.

IIRC, earlier versions of Windows, if not XP, does have a telnet client (dunno if it was removed with XP or Vista), which preceeded SSH.
 
I would use putty (for command line access) and WinSCP.

IIRC, XP does have a telnet client, which essentially preceeded SSH.

Telnel cant proceess SSH... never will :) And i think he wants to install an SSH server not sure.. But yes if u need the client putty is the best one out there.
 
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