Dylan Hunter

YES!! Absolutely love this - found an excellent page that shows exactly how to set up sshd on a WinXP box, (via Cygwin). Perfect - now I can finally shell in to my home box whereever I am to get files, do work on my home PC, finally fully access the PC’s in my home, etc., (ok, not “fully” - I’d need a gui login for that - but getting closer - then I could finally only load up programs, etc. on one box and run them from anywhere - dealing with lag, of course - ’tis one of the prime reasons that I keep playing around with Linux - that, and my just general aversion to any one firm having that much power over something, especially one with the highly questionable business practices of MS).

Note for most solo-WinXP owners that’s not in the article - you will need to put a password on your user account to SSH in. Go to Control Panel>User Accounts, click on your user, (if you’ve never dealt with users before, there should be only one) add a password and click “Ok.” This will make logging in a bit less seamless in that there’ll be a logon intercept page that you’ll now have to enter your new password for every time you reboot / startup, (which is a bit of a hassle) but it’s not terrible, (at least until your wife, daughters, etc. want to get on the computer and don’t know the password - ah well, security’s always a bit of a pain in the butt).