Category: PuTTY
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SSH on Windows: OpenSSH, PuTTY
On Windows OpenSSH’s “SSH authentication agent” is meant to run as Windows “service“. Starting a couple of years back, Microsoft decided, to deactivate that service by default. Now there are corporations, that do not want to have the “ssh-agent” service running at all. No SSH authentication agent, no caching of ssh ID-s (after enquiring the…
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mRemoteNG is an open source, tabbed, multi-protocol, remote connections manager for Windows
https://mRemoteNG.org/
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tramp says: “Cannot find local copy program: pscp” – but that does not mean there is something wrong with your emacs/tramp/PuTTY set-up
Every now and then I come across this error message: Cannot find local copy program: pscp This only occurs for “bigger” files (e.g. a 40k file), not for small files, because small files are being dealt with by plink. tramp-do-copy-or-rename-file-out-of-band (in lisp/net/tramp-sh.el) tries to find the copy-program on exec-path instead of PATH, so we have…
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using the “telnet” utility for testing ports – it’s sort of gone (on Windows nowadays), but they allow you to re-enable it
Back in the old days before SSH was “the standard way” to log into a remote computer, there “were” a protocol (and a utility) called “telnet” in order to achieve that. But the “telnet” utility traditionally also served for testing deliberate TCP/IP ports somewhere in the Internet resp. on your “Intranet”, e.g. Can I connect…
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iReport, some Oracle database, JDBC, SQLRunner, …
Your task is to interface a rather remote Oracle database with iReport. But you are not really sure, whether you are able to successfully connect to the database at all. And you want to “explore” the database, its tables, its “views” … No CLI utility like sqlplus available as well. I am trying SQLRunner. Says something…
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if saving a file through emacs’s “tramp” is not successful …
On Windows …: PLINK.EXE is part of the PuTTY family, and it’s the utility tramp is communicating through. (You do know that, as tramp does not set itself up to make use of PuTTY.) On all platforms: Burying the tramp buffer in question is actually my 1st approach on all platforms (Linux/Mac/Windows), whenever tramp communication seems…
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emacs/tramp/win/putty: what versions to choose in January 2016
“Windows 7 Professional” is set – because that’s the current company standard http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ – the latest released version was fine for me: 25.0.50.1 – I am always happy to get and try the very latest released version http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/efaq-w32/Downloading.html http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ !!!!! https://sourceforge.net/projects/emacs-bin/files/snapshots/ !!! tramp – as packaged with the emacs at the location just referred to PuTTY to be…
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ssh to “beyond the corporate firewall” through a SOCKS proxy
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSSH/Cookbook/Proxies_and_Jump_Hosts#Tunneling_SSH_Over_Tor_with_Netcat – this is THE ARTICLE — replace “Tor” in the example with your corporate SOCKS proxy http://superuser.com/questions/454210/how-can-i-use-ssh-with-a-socks-5-proxy http://linux.die.net/man/1/nc — a netcat manual page My $HOME/.ssh/config looks like this: # making use of “netcat” AKA “nc” — http://linux.die.net/man/1/nc # Host SOME_HOST_OUT_THERE User REMOTE_USER ProxyCommand /usr/bin/nc -X 5 -x SOCKS_PROXY_HOST:SOCKS_PROXY_PORT %h %p “As always” I connect to SOME_HOST_OUT_THERE like…