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Grex Info Item 357: XP and Grex
Entered by cmcgee on Sun Oct 12 01:37:06 UTC 2003:

Ever since I got my new laptop with Windows XP, pine, bbs and telnet haven't
worked well when I connect to Grex.
Mostly lines get truncated about 10-12 characters, but I also can't move
around in Pine responses, and telnet is driving me crazy with its flakyness.
Is there a knowledgeable Grex guru who can help me figure out how to reset
my stuff?  I use HyperTerminal to dial in to Grex.

12 responses total.

#1 of 12 by cross on Sun Oct 12 03:56:44 2003:

Get rid of your current telnet client and replace it with putty.

#2 of 12 by cmcgee on Sun Oct 12 04:11:07 2003:

right! I even have that already on my computer. Duh!

#3 of 12 by cmcgee on Sun Oct 12 04:25:07 2003:

Nice idea.  Didn't work.  Can't ssh from Grex or from my computer. Something
about host computer didn't accept some idea from Grex's ssh.

In the meantime, I'm still not able to see complete lines of type.  I think
it's Hyperterm that's causing part of my problem.

#4 of 12 by cross on Sun Oct 12 15:52:00 2003:

Hmm, that's because grex's SSH is woefully out of date.  Try using putty
with just telnet (not SSH),.

#5 of 12 by remmers on Sun Oct 12 19:29:28 2003:

Hm.  I have no trouble ssh'ing to Grex using putty on XP.  Check
the putty settings and make sure it's set to accept ssh1 connections.

#6 of 12 by cross on Sun Oct 12 19:58:12 2003:

(you mean make ssh1 connections, right?)

It sounds like grex is insisting on using the IDEA algorithm for
symmetric encryption of the connection, and PuTTY doesn't do IDEA
(probably due to patent restrictions).  So I'm guessing that the
connection has already been made (using SSH1).

#7 of 12 by malymi on Sun Oct 12 20:41:13 2003:

i was able to make connections to grex using blowfish, 3des and idea
(des and none were rejected); so whatever is happening it's not a lack
of ciphers in the daemon.

#8 of 12 by cross on Mon Oct 13 13:05:31 2003:

Unless, of course, none of those ciphers are supported in the client,
in which case we could be said to have a lack of ciphers in the server.

#9 of 12 by remmers on Tue Oct 14 16:22:11 2003:

Here are my PuTTY connection settings for Grex:

        Protocol: SSH (Port 22)
        Disable Nagle's algorithm
        Proxy type: None
        Preferred SSH protocol version: 1 (this is probably the crucial one)
        Authentication methods: Attempt "keyboard-interactive" authentication

        (All other SSH options are unchecked.)

Like I said earlier, works fine with XP.

#10 of 12 by cmcgee on Tue Oct 14 18:01:12 2003:

Ok, thanks, I'll try that.

#11 of 12 by redmoon on Sat Nov 15 22:14:46 2003:

what exactly can i do with this shell

#12 of 12 by kurumin on Sat Dec 13 06:03:25 2003:

Puuty

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