[darcs-users] Windows help...

[Alexander Staubo]

Balakrishnan wrote:
 > Also, is there any docs for setting up scp(sftp) client/scp(sftp)
 > server in the windows box so that files can be pull/pushed across
 > machines?

The easiest solution is probably SSHWindows, "a free package that 
installs a minimal OpenSSH server and client utilities in the Cygwin 
package without needing the full Cygwin installation", and provides 
"full SSH/SCP/SFTP support".

   http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net/

Note that this toolchain is incompatible with Cygwin; it will screw up 
any existing Cygwin installation's mount points. If you're already 
running Cygwin, there's the Portable SSH port:

   http://www.openssh.com/portable.html

As far as I know, every native SSH server implementation on Windows is 
commercial, and they are all relatively expensive (hundreds of dollars); 
the exception seems to be Bitvise WinSSHD, at $40 for a personal 
one-user license. It looks like a decent product.

   http://www.bitvise.com/winsshd.html

A second option is to mount the remote file system (using Microsoft's 
networking protocol) as a drive letter, and use Darcs against that 
repository just as you would with a local repository.

While that would work well on a LAN, I believe SMB is painfully slow 
over your typical Internet connection, and I myself have no experience 
with setting up SMB securely over SSL.

Alexander.