What software should I use to communicate with Unix server?

Hello:

I am designing a client application which will run on Windows and will
make
remote calls (through 'rexec', 'rsh' and 'rcp') to a Unix/linux server.

I have done that already from Java but this is the first time that I
do it from C/C++.

Does MS Windows provide the set of Unix protocols needed? Should I use
a third party package (that's what I did with Java)? Which one?

TIA,

-Ramon F Herrera

On 6 Jun 2005 22:09:14 -0700, Ramon F Herrera <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
| Hello:
|
| I am designing a client application which will run on Windows and will
| make
| remote calls (through 'rexec', 'rsh' and 'rcp') to a Unix/linux server.
|
| I have done that already from Java but this is the first time that I
| do it from C/C++.
|
| Does MS Windows provide the set of Unix protocols needed? Should I use
| a third party package (that's what I did with Java)? Which one?
|
| TIA,
|
| -Ramon F Herrera


Anybody with 2 brain cells to rub together and the faintest desire for
security has probably disabled all 3 of the services you mention, and
started using the SSH versions instead.


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Ramon F Herrera wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I am designing a client application which will run on Windows and will
> make
> remote calls (through 'rexec', 'rsh' and 'rcp') to a Unix/linux server.
>
> I have done that already from Java but this is the first time that I
> do it from C/C++.
>
> Does MS Windows provide the set of Unix protocols needed? Should I use
> a third party package (that's what I did with Java)? Which one?
>
> TIA,
>
> -Ramon F Herrera
>

I'm sure you can find windows implementations of rexec, rsh and
rcp. A quick google for "windows rexec" turned up a microsoft one
(which of course may only work to other windows machines) and a
commercial offering in the first three links.

Probably the easiest thing to do is use the C exec() calls to
launch a separate process and wait for the result.

As Paul said, these protocols are pretty-much discontinued now,
in favour of SSH and SCP which offer security as well as the
functionality you seek - encryption and authentication. There are
both commercial and open source offerings of SSH/SCP - again, use
google. Depends what services the unix admin chooses to run, of
course.

Steve

> I am designing a client application which will run on Windows and will
> make remote calls (through 'rexec', 'rsh' and 'rcp') to a Unix/linux server.

As discussed in favor of SSH, you might consider looking at the source
code of putty. I'm sure that will help you while designing your kind of
applications.

for win32

http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/.../putty-src.zip


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