From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2009-12-27T05:23:16+09:00
Subject: Re: pasing data between 2 win XP boxes via internet

Dave Lilley wrote:
> 
> how to pass a stream of data in a secure manner using SSH protocos from
> a winXP Pro OS to a winXP Pro OS using 1.8.6.X ruby.
> 
> there won't be a "server" used for the present and so would like to push
> data from one end to the other when the user has an update needed to be
> passed on.
> 
> I am totally new to the net::XXXX protocols so any help would be
> appreciated.

Note, there's also OpenSSL::SSL::SSLSocket and OpenSSL::SSL::SSLServer
which should allow you to establish an encrypted connection between
two nodes at the TCP socket level.

That's a pretty low-level solution, in that you end up with a socket,
and you'll need to write code on either end to decide what to do with
data that is sent/received.

Depending on your needs, a higher level solution--as others have
mentioned--might be to install cygwin and get an ssh server running,
then use for example rsync to synchronize files and directories between
the nodes.


Hope this helps,

Bill