On each client running Windows 7, we login as a local user with administrative rights.
We do the following:
We create a local user account with administrative priviledges and username : root [c7]
Note
Password for the root user must be rather difficult for security reasons. If we have dual-boot clients with Windows and Linux OS, we select the same password for the root user to both Linux and Windows OS. We use the same root password on all client PCs.
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Copssh is an ssh server, based on cygwin, that can be setup very easily.
To install Copssh we do the following:
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To setup firewall to allow remote ssh connections we do the following :
We have opened ssh port from Windows Firewall. One last step is to enable File and Printer Sharing. [c11]
To finish configuring ssh access, we must restart the client PC.
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