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NEWS YOU CAN USE FROM VANDYKE SOFTWARE® This month we cover essential skills for automating logging on to sessions. Then we discuss customizing SecureCRT® session tabs, with several options to take the tab interface to a higher level of productivity. The rolling stone of VanDyke Software development gathers no moss, with new SecureCRT and VShell® features ready for pre-beta testing. Our featured forum post opens up a topic often considered highly complex: dynamic port forwarding. ------------- 1. Essential Skills: Logon Automation
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automation capabilities: logon scripts and expect-send sequences.
This article continues the discussion of possibilities for The traditional way to set up auto logon for Telnet is to use "expect-send" sequences: if the host sends a "login:" prompt, the client responds with the username and password data. There is however another way that is not much harder to do: use the Script Recorder to create a VBScript (Windows only, for now). You run it to capture your logon sequence, save the script, and then have a ready-to-use automated logon routine. Keep in mind that if the password is stored in a script, it will be in plain text. A good introduction to the Script Recorder is found in the online Scripting Essentials guide. If you use the same username and password to logon to many hosts, scripting the logon can make the logon process easier. And, if you change the password for these hosts, you only need to change the line in the script that sends the password to the new password. The following tip shows how to do this with a logon script: Coming from a different angle, there is the question of how to open a group of sessions with the least effort and repetition. A 2010 forum thread lays out how to set up sessions in a startup folder and open them using the SecureCRT auto session capability. If you need to open multiple sessions after SecureCRT starts up,
another 2010 forum thread describes how to do this with the "Create Desktop Shortcut" command – this works with either ----------------------------------------- If you're like many of our customers, your version of SecureCRT mostly uses the default settings. If that does all you need in the tabbed session interface, great – but you may be missing an opportunity to control some useful elements, such as:
Tab color serves as an alert mechanism, letting you multi task in multiple session windows without missing important feedback – especially valuable for technical users like system administrators. Customizing tabs is accomplished through the Global Options dialog, Terminal / Tabs category. The following is a summary of the options available:
Other tab category options give you control over tab behavior as well as appearance:
The Help topic "Session Tabs" in the "Using the Software" section has some suggestions to make using tabs faster and easier. Take a look at the Help file if any of these tips look useful:
----------------------------------------------------------- As development of SecureCRT continues, VanDyke Software Development is looking for users to test new capabilities in pre-beta releases. The Connect bar is an optional item on the toolbar that allows you to enter basic host access data directly in the main application window – no Quick Connect dialog needed. Please contact SecureCRT Product Director Maureen Jett at if you are interested in participating in pre-beta testing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The VShell server also has new features in development, which are available for pre-beta testing. Further expanding VShell's fine-grained access control is the ability to set virtual root access permissions for individual users and groups. The VShell administrator may configure specific permissions allowed for each user for each root. The permissions available include file upload, download, and delete, as well as folder list, create, and delete. If you would like to test and provide feedback on this new server functionality, please send e-mail to . -------------------------------------------------------------- Follow the discussion as forum member "scottwatson" learns how to access a website that is two hosts removed from his Secure Shell client. Since SecureCRT can't launch an application if dynamic forwarding is enabled, Scott learned how to use a SOCKS proxy for the second SecureCRT session to allow tunneling HTTP traffic. To read the complete thread on dynamic forwarding, visit the VanDyke Software online forums: ----------------------------------------
Maintenance releases of SecureCRT 6.6.2, SecureFX 6.6.2, and
the ClientPack 6.6.2 utilities were made available February 1.
For more information please consult the release history on the The SecureCRT 6.6 release offers cross-platform scripting with Python and a "Send Binary" file transfer option. The first version for Mac OS X systems delivers a full complement of advanced session management, security, terminal emulation, and automation capabilities. SecureFX 6.6 adds the ability to limit bandwidth available to transfers and an option to set the number of parallel transfers allowed. ClientPack 6.6 improves the VRALib interface for COM and .NET applications. Here is a list of the latest
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