HI, George
Generally I listened to several podcasts, but rarely comment. But after watching your series on remote login, I am compelled to write - It is simply excellent series. Eventhough I am using ssh and FTPs several years I still learned several new things. Thanks for the podcast.

Thanks! It is nice to know folks with all levels of experience are taking something useful from the series.

Absolutelly! Thank you George for an excellent series! I can´t wait for nr. 6-8 :-)
Regards,
Pavel

Great comments Pavel, you should sign up for Disquss, so you are automatically approved on comments. Will likely put out part 6 today , by the way.

Hi George,
I'm loving the screencasts! Great job!

I have another question though... Is it possible to copy the private key created on my Mac to a Windows box and connect from it?

I've tried to replicate the SFTP/SSH steps on my Windows XP SP2 machine (from a remote location) without luck. I'm using the id_rsa file created on my Mac and have tried several different WinXP SFTP clients, all with the same result - my home Mac is (actively) refusing the connection. I'm pretty sure I have all the settings correct, hence my question above.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. If there's a forum I should be posting this to instead of the comments, please point me to it.

Thank you.

You need to use PuTTY instead of iTerm when on Windows. You need to run your private key through PuTTY KeyGen to convert it to a PuTTY compatible format.
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

Then things like WinSCP can use the same PuTTY converted private key to file copy (Cyberduck equivalent) to your mac from your pc. http://winscp.net/eng/index.php

Thanks again for your help! It's working great now. I can copy files from my WinXP box to my Mac and vice versa.

The only thing I can't get working is the tunneling for my browsers. The error is "SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.7 Protocol mismatch." I'm sure I'll figure it out though - it's got to be somewhere in the settings, right?

Hi George,
Is there a way to download this series of screencasts? I've been listening since 2005, but this is my first comment
Thanks for the podcast

Well you can download them from iTunes under my show. Then you can watch them on your computer or right click in itunes and covert them to watch on your ipod.