HI,
Are these laptops standalone or login to a domain\network ? -
We have a similar setup - but we have added an xcopy of a network held
hosts file to c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts into the login script
to cater for updates.
we then use ssh.com ssh which will first use the local hosts file to
resolve ips from hostnames.
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John Horne <John.Horne@plymouth.ac.uk> 13/01/05 10:43:22 >>>
Hello,
Our networking team are using secure shell to access their network
devices from Windows XP laptops. However, at present there are over
400
devices and each member of the team has their own copy of those
devices
DNS name and/or IP address in a list. The problem is that whenever a
device is changed (IP address), added or removed then each member of
the
team has to be told and update their list. This does not work well!
I have been asked to see if there is a secure shell client, be it open
source, shareware, commercial or whatever, that supports some form of
'central host list'. Ideally this would be just a text list of DNS
names
held on a central file store. That way the team only has to update one
list and the change is then immediately accessible to all team
members.
I have looked at some SSH products, openssh, secure CRT, F-secure,
openssh for windows (with ttssh), terraterm and so on, but can find
nothing that has any sort of central host list. Does anyone know of
any
such product?
Many thanks,
John.
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