Freeware telnet application

[fingery]

As title, can anyone recommend a decent freeware telnet application??

[craigiecraigie4]

JJ comes with built-in terminal services client for use with remote desktop server. Or do you truly need a text terminal?

[rilot]

Pocket Putty is what you want.

I use it all the time. Not as useful as it could be as the JASJAR lacks a [ctrl] key.

[EyeOfTheStorm]

Pocket Putty is what you want.

I use it all the time. Not as useful as it could be as the JASJAR lacks a [ctrl] key.

Yes! Thats the best software for Telnet and SSH. Just google for it.

[fingery]

I'd already come accross Pocket Putty but decided not to use it as the last couple of pages on the users forum were nothing but complaints that it hung their PDA's during use.

Yes, i really need text based...it's for connecting to routers.
Surprising there's not more available considering the simplicity of telnet!

[EyeOfTheStorm]

I am using Pocket Putty for SSH connection to my Linux Server. It's working very well on my MDA Pro. I have used it on MDA / MDA III and MDA Pro.

[nedbsd]

I am also looking for a text-based, secure, way to connect to my Linux machines.

I'm having some trouble with PocketPutty on my MDA Pro. I am using PocketPuTTY-v0.2-alpha-2k2-0.53b though I've used the prior version too. When I run it it doesn't hang the system really, but doesn't do anything either, just displays whatever's behind it or such. I'm assuming pressing the "ok" button is the same as pressing the non-existant "connect" button. I once saw a black terminal with a green square, but it was frozen and had no connection. Any sugguestions?

Does anyone know any other working SSH2 clients? Maybe more will be released when M$ releases real WM5 development tools ~Nov 7th. Thanks in advance.

[jp_howard]

I'm finding this works well for ssh: http://www.uni-bonn.de/~bbrings/

[nedbsd]

Thanks jp_howard for the useful tip. I currently can't quite get OpenSSH CE working for the following reasons:

1. Can't find console ported program to install on my device since http://www.rainer-keuchel.de/wince/console.html is offline.

2. (probably fixed when above works) Must edit the registry to add environmental variables, but can't figure out how in Windows Mobile 5 registry. I have the PHM RegEdit but can't find "HKeyLocalMachine->Environment" as in:

<snip>
cereg -k "HKLM\Environment" -n "UNIXROOTDIR" -v "\unix"
cereg -k "HKLM\Environment" -n "PATH" -v "\unix\bin;\Windows"
cereg -k "HKLM\Environment" -n "HOME" -v "\unix\home"
<snip>

If it's really any good, could someone maybe release an "HTC Universal OpenSSH CE do-it-yourself kit" with the files / resources we need. This would ease the setup of OpenSSH, which is what most users complain about.

Pocket Putty now works great! I'm running the older version directly (used to be running newer version through a shortcut), which fixes the crashes I had earlier.

[jp_howard]

The current version of OpenSSH that works on the Universal is here: http://www.uni-bonn.de/~bbrings/open_ssh_wince420.zip

I've attached a .reg file that should work fine. You can install the .reg file using TRE (http://www2r.biglobe.ne.jp/~tascal/download/hpc/tre_e.htm)

[jp_howard]

Attached to this message is the console app and required DLL for openssh.

[henkreyn]

Pocket Putty now works great! I'm running the older version directly (used to be running newer version through a shortcut), which fixes the crashes I had earlier.[/quote]

Works for me too, strange that the older version works and the newer doesn't.

jp_howard; Does OpenSSH allow you to set up a tunnel??

[jp_howard]

I haven't tried. I expect it would work, since it's just a port of OpenSSH, which has that functionality.