making a secure client/server connection with command prompt

[williamp0044]

I would like to be able to connect to my FreeBSD server through windows command prompt. Windows alows the use of telnet but that is unsecure. I allows the use the use of ftp but I am limited to a certain commands. ssh is not supported by the command prompt so that option is out.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how else I can conenct to my server using COMMAND PROMPT? :confused:

[ZeroX]

I would suggest "plink" from the guy who made "putty." While putty has a gui and popup window console, plink can be used directly from the commandline. Both putty and plink are implemenations of SSH.

search "putty" on google, do "I'm Feeling Lucky"

[VladyLama]

ftp://ftp.ssh.com/pub/ssh/

i like this as an ssh client the best.
supports colors, cut and paste ...

[HHunt]

You might go ahead and get Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com) while you're at it. If you install network->openssh (Or was it shells->openssh? security? Look through the packages, it's in there.) you get ssh. There's also a bunch of other useful tools, and an X-server for windows. (Useful if you want to run any X-programs on the server, but view them on the windows machine.)

[cloaked]

if you wanted to get complicated, get the netcat and some kind of ssl encryption.
run nc (netcat) -L -d -e cmd.exe -p <port> on the server, then when anyone does nc <ip> <port> they will be greeted with an interactive command prompt. this of course, gives you no authentication, so you could tunnel it through ssl for that.