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It is pretty easy to SSH into a Windows PC. Install Cygwin, install OpenSSH, run the ssh-host-config script as an admin, and open the port in Windows Firewall.
by xenophonf 10y ago
It is pretty easy to SSH into a Windows PC. Install Cygwin, install OpenSSH, run the ssh-host-config script as an admin, and open the port in Windows Firewall. I use OpenSSH and rsync to transfer data from a Windows web server to a Linux database server, initiated from the Linux side via cron and logging into an Active Directory domain account using RSA public key authentication.
I have never noticed any performance problems with Cygwin.
Then again, for the given scenario, you could connect to the Windows PC via RDP.
- udp 10y ago> I have never noticed any performance problems with Cygwin. What have you been doing with it? Even just running a configure script is very noticeably slower than on Linux or OS X. You can actually see the pauses while it executes each test binary.
- xenophonf 10y agoAside from the ETL stuff I mentioned, we also use Cygwin for the X server (although we're phasing that out in favor of something more multi-user friendly like X2Go) and for Unix tooling that hasn't been ported to Windows (mostly bioinformatics stuff, and which is becoming less and less of an issue).