I have been spending some of my spare time looking into various
means of providing a reasonably secure access method over the
Internet to my various servers, HP3000, HP9000, and several
flavours of NT, for my telecommuting staff.  They currently use
NS/VT for the HP3000s, and telnet for the HP9000s.  I am the only
one that currently has any reason to talk to a NT box (and what I
have to say on those occassions should not be overheard) and I
mostly use ftp in that case.

I have considered PPTP but I must say that the independent
reports that I have read are not encouraging, to say the least.
Casting about for an alternative I came across SSH.  Can anyone
here enlighten me as to why SSH (V2?) would or would NOT be a
good choice, whether or not it is available for the HP3000, and what
other alternatives are available to me.

As the budget committee is want to say; "...A low, or no-cost
solution is to be desired for this item."

Regards,
Jim
James B. Byrne                    [log in to unmask]
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