I’ll use putty in a pinch, but it’s… meh. VanDyke support the 3 times I’ve ever needed it has been great.

I’d have to think though that they’d sell way more if they cut the price in half.

Maureen

Console2: http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/

Once you’ve installed Console2 edit the settings and point your Shell to: C:\Cygwin.bat and point the startup dir to: C:Documents and Settings (which is where you’ll put your .ssh folder.)

Don’t forget to go to the mouse section and turn off ‘shift’ key for select-text, go to hotkeys and reset paste to ctrl-v, and behavior to turn on clear selection on copy and copy unix newlines.

I downloaded the TeraTerm Web Pro 3.1.3 from softpedia, http://www.softpedia.com/get/Network-Tools/Telnet-SSH-Clients/Tera-Term-Web.shtml . The screen shots provided in their site is looks cool, but after downloading i found that it wasnt what they had mentioned.

I started out with TeraTerm but moved onto PuTTY and spent a while getting a comfortable config there. However, I do quite a bit of SSH dynamic tunnelling, and found PuTTY a bit clunky for that, and plugging the config in and out of the Windows registry took a bit of getting used to. I briefly tried both SecureCRT and the SSH.com products, but didn’t get on with them and had no budget to pay for them anyway.

I’ve subsequently moved to CYGWIN. Being a *nix dude I find this the most natural choice for working in windows – I can script and I can use a config that’s familiar, flexible and easy to manipulate ( ck, if you’d been using CYGWIN OpenSSH, migration to Linux would have been simple ). I have also experimented with running Linux in a VM, which is nice but a bit heavy on resources.

No doubt I could learn to love the commercial products if I got more familiar with them, but for my purposes CYGWIN’s OpenSSH implementation meets my requirements just fine. And it’s free

It has an Applescript interface that can script much

The Terminal in Leopard 10.5.5 also supports a lots of Applescript features and can be scripted well. I haven’t had the time to put anything together. if you have any tips I would love to see them.

I currently use a mac as my personal laptop and have a windows laptop issues by my employer.

The problem im facing now is, I want to totally abandon windows and wipe the laptop and throw linux on it.

Secure CRT, and the use of scripting and its session management are the only thing left to decide how to tackle before i make the move!

Any suggestions?

@Mike Bo: Global options, terminal. Check “copy on select” and “paste on button” and you will have your X-style copy and paste.

I’ve been a happy SecureCRT user for many years now and I personally feel it was and is well worth the money.

I’m sorry, I just don’t see the tremendous features that others are singing about – it’s an SSH terminal program… for a hundred bucks? The cut/paste thing has me fleeing back to Putty immediately.
mikebo

Its a corporate rip off. They get away with it because they can.

Personally, I find VBA a dogs breakfast to use and debug. The logic and structure makes no sense to me and thus I have never been tempted to use this feature. Maybe a starting point for a hack would help – if you can share that would be be kewl.

At some point I had no SNMP access to > 1500 routers and needed to change the passwords on these boxes. VBA in SecureCRT allowed me to login to each of those boxes, change the password, test the password change by connecting back into the same router then saving the config when successful while writing a report in an Excel file, all this from a rather simple VBA script.

As for the CTRL-C being disabled by default, there is a good reason behind that, mostly if you are using the software to configure Cisco equipment. CTRL-C, for example, is a special code that you need to send to most Cisco devices to do a password recovery and if it were intercepted for an program interface command, it would make it much more complicated to send to the devices you are connected to. They made an assumption but I think they were right in doing so for most of their customers.

Also, you must know that you can change this in the application’s settings, by connection, though. This way, you can get it to remember to disable CTRL-C for Cisco and Unix connections, where CTRL-C is needed to be sent out to the remote host, while configuring some other connections to use CTRL-C for copy, CTRL-V for paste and so on and so forth.

As for the global and per connection settings, I believe you could get over that by taking your time to understand it. It is actually rather practical although maybe a little different than what you’d be used to.

Another feature which may be overlooked but which I like is the possibility of having different visual settings per connections. For example, you could set it to have a light green background for any lab connections, while you might want to have a light red background for production machine connections. This way, with many open sessions, you might prevent a damageable command to be issued in the wrong context, while moving quickly through the different sessions.

But in the end, you pay much more for VBA and the few other readily visible features and, as many seem to suggest, it is always a matter of taste more than anything. If you are only looking for an SSH client, this may be overkill and overpriced indeed.

Good luck with that!

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