X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 11:01:36 -0400 From: "Brett Serkez" To: jensen@adobe.com, cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: rlogin or telnet from Unix to WinXP In-Reply-To: <060603073514.ZM20718@picard> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <060603073514.ZM20718@picard> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Use secure shell (openssh), the r protocols are deprecated due to security concerns. Secure shell is a drop in replacement for the r protocols (mostly) with much better security and has become the standard. There is a secure shell deamon that can be run under Cygwin and should do what you want. Brett On 6/3/06, Freddy Jensen wrote: > > This is a question that I am sure many folks have the > answer to, because I can imagine that people do this > all the time. I just have never had the time to get > it set up: > > I wan't to be able to rlogin (and rshd) from my Unix > machine to my WinXP machine. I have cygwin installed > on the WinXP machine so I want to rlogin to the home > directory in my cygwin install dir and run a shell > (bourne shell or c-shell). I also want to be able to > run 'rsh' from my unix machine to execute commands > in my cygwin home directory. > > But, currently I cannot do that because there are > no rshd, rlogind, or telnet daemons in cygwin. > > I did try to enable the telnet service in > Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Services > and I added Telnet port 23 to the Windows > Firewall Exception list. > > But that just allows me to telnet into the WinXP > machine and get a batch cmd session. > > I really want to be able to rsh to the WinXP machine > and have full access to everything in the cygwin > "world" on the machine. > > I know that the "Unix Services for Windows" product > from Microsoft has the rsh and rlogind programs, but > someone told me that it will cause problems to have > "Unix Services for Windows" installed together with > cygwin, so I hesitate installing it. > > So my question is: > > Is there a cygwin package that I can download > and install that will give me what I want? > > Help and advise will be appreciated. > > Thanks > > Freddy > > > > -- > Freddy Jensen, Sr. Computer Scientist, Adobe Systems Incorporated > 345 Park Avenue, San Jose, CA 95110-2704, USA, Ph: (408) 536-2869 > Email: jensen@adobe.com, URL: http://www.adobe.com > -- > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/