I was asked by a Windows user who's migrated to Linux what would be analogous to Putty. Would that be ssh? I don't know diddly about a "secure shell" on ANY platform. I told him I'd ask my LUG and get back with him. I'm trying to persuade him to join our email list. His name is Helmut and he's the "DearWebby" guy. http://www.webby.com/humor/ He bought a Vista laptop under minor-emergency circumstances, hates it, and has replaced it with Ubuntu. -- Don Crowder http://www.lockergnome.com/eldergeek/ //www.freelists.org/list/donspatch http://don-guitar.blogspot.com/ http://www.myspace.com/donguitar A proud user of Debian Etch w/KDE. ______________________________________________________________________________ Highland Lakes Linux User Group (HLLUG): http://www.hllug.org HLLUG mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/hllug