I wanted to ask you guys what SSH/Telnet software you guys like and use? I am new to dedicated servers and am looking for a good program that I can use to login to my server through ssh and telnet. Any recommendations are greatly appreciated! Thanks.

PuTTY: a free Telnet/SSH client. It's very popular and very good...

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

yeah putty is good, and if you arent familiar with command line you may want to get started with tightvnc.com its not a ssh tool but rather a remote gui tool similar to remote desktop

go with putty , cant beat it for the price.

Originally posted by HiVelocity
go with putty , cant beat it for the price.
Couldn't beat it at any price ;).

A combination of Putty and WinSCP can be pretty handy.

I agree with the guys that putty is one of the best but when come to configure to do SSH port forwarding, I couldn't get it to work correctly and have to use Cygwin with SSH. (Or perhaps, I love command line too much, and so much so that the GUI is just not for me)

Nevertheless for only SSH and Telnet function, you just can't beat Putty for the price you have to pay (which is $0.00).

Personally I like
http://www.siliconcircus.com/penguinet/

Yeah, they have a fee but when I can install it and works right the first time that is what I liked.

I use ssh, which whilst they made a new version which is not free, the old one is - and is still downloadable from their site (http://www.ssh.com/support/downloads/secureshellwks/non-commercial.html)

I like it becuase it doesn't look like a windows command prompt and you can resize it easily.

I do know that there is one issue youu need to be aware of, which is that keys need to be in a different format than those created using putty. There is a converter with putty IIRC, and I think you can convert them using the client (I can't remember - did it once, don't need to do it again :) google will tell you )

F-Secure has a commercial ssh client which is very good.

Penguinet has been working out perfectly for me

Hello,
I agree with all of you, SSH.com and Putty are the best clients out there. SSH.com is a little more advanced but both are really good.

Best Regards
Oskar R

We decided on SecureCRT as a company standard, a few years ago. Needless to say, I recommend it highly.

http://www1.vandyke.com/products/securecrt/

Take care....

been using http://www.siliconcircus.com/penguinet/ for 5 years.

Originally posted by DataDork
We decided on SecureCRT as a company standard, a few years ago. What would you say is worth the $99 price tag on this one?

Definately Putty.

I use putty, does most of my work. :)

Command line telnet also is a very powerful tool, but u have to get ued to its dossy looks and commands.

I will give fsecures software though. Didnt know bout it. Thanks dpatel.

I like PuTTy in my hands.

If you drop it in to Windows System32 folder, you can SSH from the Windows RUN menu. :)

Originally posted by funkytaco
If you drop it in to Windows System32 folder, you can SSH from the Windows RUN menu. :)
If you open the System control panel applet, edit the system environment varianble to include your putty directory, you can then run it from the command line / run menu too. And that's a bit safer than modifying your system32 directory!

putty is rather good and free.

SecureCRT is a bit better. i don't know if it just me but it handles SSH tunnels much better than putty.

Tunnelier is free-as-in-beer and good, esp at tunneling but is rarther bad at handeling non US charsets.

Originally posted by bear
What would you say is worth the $99 price tag on this one?

I would say if you like it its worth $99, I've used SecureCRT and SecureFX (ftp) for many, many years now.

Nice features with SecureCRT is the ability to store more custom settings and I belive setup auto execution scripts for when you login.


If you cant afford $99, or anything at that, Putty and WinSCP both kick major butt.

We've never had an issue with PuTTy and WinSCP. Both free.

Heh...I use a bunch of different clients!

PuTTY - my personal fave. Small, fast, and it works. I keep a UPX compressed copy on my webserver so I can get a copy quick wherever I am.

WinSCP - used in combo with PuTTY, excellent SCP client. I love the online editing thing - very handy.

PSCP - command line scp client, from the PuTTY author. Nice for batch scripts.

SecureCRT - Excellent for handling a lot of concurrent connections, the 'tabbed' system (like Firefox) and the systray 'Activator' make it great.

SecureFX - SCP client from same guys as SecureCRT. Not bad, but WinSCP is just as good and free.

SecureNetTerm - horrible SSH client! I really don't like it, but it's the only one that properly supports x509 certificate-on-smartcard authentication, which I have to use.

Am sorely tempted to try PenguinNet now - thanks for the tip!

PuTTy/PuTTygen

Currently i am using Putty to do SSH for backups.

It's a good software and it's free.

But I am searching around for alternatives where i can save projects or commands as I have a lot of mysql databases to backup.

Originally posted by l.stevens
Personally I like
http://www.siliconcircus.com/penguinet/

Yeah, they have a fee but when I can install it and works right the first time that is what I liked.

Hey, this is good.

It import settings from putty and it also can save username and passwords.

Originally posted by Rain Maker
Currently i am using Putty to do SSH for backups.

It's a good software and it's free.

But I am searching around for alternatives where i can save projects or commands as I have a lot of mysql databases to backup.

If you have a lot of stuffs to backup, a better solution is to write a script to do that. Use perl and the Net::SSH and Net::SFTP library, you can achieve that automatically.

If you are only looking at backup the mysql databases, you should use the mysql replicated function.

I like tunnelier, user friendly I think

http://www.bitvise.com/tunnelier.html

PuTTY is a very robust and complete SSH1/2 implementation and is highly recommended.

Originally posted by Rain Maker
Hey, this is good.

It import settings from putty and it also can save username and passwords.

my favorite too

One of the things i miss on putty or other windows ssh clients, it's the possibility to write on more than one windows at the same time and send all the commands, i mean that in linux you can put:

$top

And the command it's send to all the terminals you have open, with that you can manage 4 or 5 servers at the same time, anyone know this on windows software? i'm looking a lot and i don't find any, thanks.

Does PenguiNet support remote access using keys sort of like pageant for putty?

I recommend tuSSH for Palm OS.

How about any windows mobile 2003 clients? (other than pocketpuTTY)

There is a ssh FREE client for symbian series also. Its cool and works on my cell

You can download it from
http://nokia6680forum.co.uk/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=132

Putty, SecureCRT and one for my blackberry that I can't remember the name of right now.

Yes I use SSH also very nice http://www.ssh.com :)

What SSH tool are the rest of you using?