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NEWS YOU CAN USE FROM VANDYKE SOFTWARE® One strength of the SecureCRT® and SecureFX® clients is their ability to allow you to efficiently create, manage, and use many host connections. This month we offer a set of tips to help you take advantage of the many capabilities you have when working with multiple sessions. Next, we show you how to configure the VShell® FTPS server to use third-party certificates for SSL authentication. Development for SecureCRT and SecureFX continues, with testers needed for new pre-beta capabilities. A quick update on SecureCRT for Mac OS: alpha testing continues to go well – so look for a beta version in the next few months. This month's featured forum post is about server hopping, for those situations when direct host connections won't do the trick. ------------- 1. Tips for Managing Multiple Connections
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---------------------------------------------------------- One of the biggest strengths of SecureCRT and SecureFX has been
the ability to manage and use multiple session connections, for
example when you need to connect to the same set of sessions
http://www.vandyke.com/support/tips/multisessions.html http://forums.vandyke.com/showthread.php?t=3757 http://forums.vandyke.com/showthread.php?t=4831 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The VShell for FTPS server uses an authentication system based on SSL encryption, where systems are validated by their certificates, whether self-signed or validated by a certificate authority (CA). The tip explains how to generate a certificate, submit it to a CA for signing, and add it to the VShell server system for use. To read the complete tip on certificates and VShell for FTPS,
visit the VanDyke Software online support section. VanDyke Software Development is looking for users to test new capabilities in pre-beta releases of SecureCRT and SecureFX. SecureCRT adds a binary transfer mode and a logging option, while two SecureFX features give the user more control over file transfers. SecureCRT:
SecureFX:
If you would like to test and provide feedback on any of these new features, please send e-mail to --------------------------------------------------------- Forum users regularly search the VanDyke Software forums for information on using port forwarding to "hop" server connections. Server hopping means connecting from client A through servers B and C to server D, where D may be a machine that A can't connect to directly. A variety of tunneling capabilities can be used depending on the network configuration, including remote forwarding, dynamic forwarding, and forwarding a proxy. Read the complete forum thread on hop connections. ---------------------------------------- Maintenance releases were made on May 11 of SecureCRT 6.5.3, SecureFX 6.5.3, and ClientPack 6.5.3, as well as the VShell server 3.6.3, to address issues identified in previous versions. Tab upgrades, Windows 7 support, and emulator keyword high-lighting lead the way for the official releases of SecureCRT 6.5 and SecureFX 6.5, along with the VShell 3.6 server and VanDyke ClientPack 6.5. SecureFX 6.5 – New tabbed main window, SCP transfer protocol support, Windows 7 taskbar integration, parent ".." folder icon navigation. SecureCRT 6.5 – Tab status indicator options, real-time keyword highlighting, drag-and-drop transfers from Windows Explorer, Windows 7 taskbar integration, revised button bar. ClientPack 6.5 – VRALib, a new .NET and COM-compliant component scripting SSH2 connections in Windows. VShell 3.6 server – Limit access to SSH2 commands and services by public key, set environment variables via SSH2, audit vshelld events with Solaris BSM. Here is a list of the latest
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