In this video, we give you a quick overview of VShell’s Monitor.
VShell Monitor is a real-time connection monitoring tool that allows an administrator to view active connections to the VShell server. VShell Monitor can be set to start on administrator logon and provides easy access to the VShell Control Panel and Help.
| An Overview of the VShell Monitor |
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A common networking problem is needing to reach certain host machines that can only be connected to from a jump host or a bastion server.
If your jump host or bastion server is an SSH2 server that supports port forwarding, SecureCRT’s dependent session feature makes it easy to reach those secondary hosts behind the bastion server.
This video show you how to set up SecureCRT dependent sessions to make these types of connections.
| How to Use SecureCRT’s Dependent Sessions to Connect to a Jump Host |
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VShell 4.3.3 (Official) is now available for download. This is a maintenance release to address issues found in VShell 4.3.2.
VShell 4.3 for Windows now supports authentication using credentials provided by an external LDAP server and adds a manage-public-key interface allowing the VShell administrator to easily configure (add, remove, and view) user public keys. On all platforms, support for chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com authenticated encryption cipher provides additional encryption options. On UNIX platforms, VShell enhances fine-grained control of virtual directories by allowing specific file and folder access permissions to be specified on a per user, per virtual directory basis. Also new on UNIX platforms is the ability to specify which virtual directory a user is placed in upon connecting.
Here’s what’s new in VShell 4.3 (official):
You can read more about the new capabilities in VShell 4.3.3 (official) here:
Download and evaluate the 4.3.3 official release today.
For a complete list of changes, please see the history file:
The VShell server provides access to specific functionality such as:
While VShell provides all of this functionality, your specific project may only require file transfer capabilities.
This video shows you how to enable file transfer for most users, while allowing an administrator to continue to have access to the other functionality. The video also shows you how to restrict permissions to certain protocols, such as SCP, SFTP, and FTPS. If needed, you can set up VShell as an SFTP server.
| How to Configure VShell for Windows as a File Transfer-Only Server |
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