Chapter 16. Tectia for Windows

Our treatment of Tectia in previous chapters has focused on Unix implementations, but Tectia is fully supported on Microsoft Windows platforms. It’s packaged as a suite of products, including:

Tectia Client

A GUI application that initiates outgoing SSH connections, with a terminal emulator, supporting key-management functionality, port forwarding, and file transfers using SFTP, plus command-line programs for scripting

Accession Lite

An authentication agent

Tectia Connector

Transparent, dynamic port forwarding for selected applications

Tectia Server

A service to accept incoming SSH connections

At press time, the Tectia products can be installed on the versions of Windows listed in Table 16-1. Consult the latest documentation for a complete list of supported platforms.

Table 16-1. Supported Microsoft Windows platforms for SSH Tectia

Program

95

98

Me

NT

2000

XP

Server 2003

Tectia Client

-

any

any

4.0SP6

SP2

any

any

Accession Lite

-

any

any

4.0SP6

SP2

any

any

Tectia Connector

-

-

-

4.0SP6

SP2

SP1

-

Tectia Server

-

-

-

4.0SP6

SP2

any

any

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