I was wondering if anyone could give me some feedback on ssh client side programs for Windows. I've found a bunch of programs but I don't know which one is really good.

puTTY is generally the most favoured afaik

I generally use cygwin, not only is it easy as hell to install, you sorta get a feel as if you were running linux from it. You can also run window maker!

Cool

sorry... where does cygwin come into this? just so you can use the linux version... bit of a waste of energy isn't it? I always found cygwin hell on toast, maybe you had better luck than me...

Hell on toast eh? I guess I was just lucky, and the fact that it was the only thing I was able to install on w2k without admin priv's.

The only ssh client I've ever used was cygwin's, which is OpenSSH AFAIK, and it seems to work great:
Open up cygwin (which is a glorified bash shell I think):
ssh -l masterc myip:22
And bam, I'm in.

putty is just one file, one executable. You don't even install it, just place on your desktop and doubleclick to run. don't need admin privileges to do that..

Putty seems to be the one most people use, and indeed it works.

Personally I've found it to be quite.. slow. I don't think it's window management is terribly well written, but

a) It's free
b) It works
c) It's simple.

You can go for SecureCRT which is honestly about as good as Putty, but costs money. I use the vanilla CRT for telnet sessions (I bought it years back when windows only had 'telnet' Bleh). I never went for the SecureCRT though.

I recently found ssh.com have released their SSH for Windows for free. They don't advertise it much, mind you... but you can get it from here :

http://www.ssh.com/support/downloads/secureshellwks/

The last item on the list. For Non-Commercial use, mind you. It's an excellent shell, and comes with a *very* nice graphical SCP client aswell, so no more ftp'ing and it's a cut above the putty implementation which is command line only.

Slick.

Sweet, doesn't get much easier than that I guess I stopped once I found cygwin worked.

Thanks for that though, I am sweating it everyday that the IT dudes are gonna jack my cygwin and yell at me for having it on there.

Cool

And you ain't one of these IT dudes?