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- Power on the VM if it is not already powered on
- Install VMWare Tools (Note: you must have a CD-ROM drive configured for the VM in order to install VMware Tools)
- Click on the VM menu and select "Install VMWare Tools"
- Select Typical and proceed through the setup pages accepting the defaults
- Reboot the VM when installation is complete
Install Cygwin
- From within the Windows XP VM, download and run the Cygwin installer to the desktop: http://cygwin.com/setup.exe
- Install from Internet
- Root Directory: C:\Cygwin
- Install For: Just Me
- Default Test File Type: DOS/text
- Local Package Directory: Desktop
- Internet Connection: Direct Connection
- Download Site: choose one (.edu FTP sites seem the fastest)
- Select Packages: Net: openssh
- Create icon on Desktop: No
- Add icon to Start Menu: No
- Delete the Cygwin installation files from the desktop:
- Installer: setup.exe
- Local package directory: C:\ftp%...cygwin...
Configure Cygwin SSH service
- Launch the Cygwin shell
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C:\Cygwin\Cygwin.bat |
- Download the cygwin-sshd-config.sh script to the following location on the Windows VM:
C:\Cygwin\home\root\cygwin-sshd-config.sh - Windows may have saved the file with a .txt extension, from within the Cygwin shell:
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ls ~ cygwin-sshd-config.sh.txt |
If this is the case, rename the file: Panel |
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mv cygwin-sshd-config.sh.txt cygwin-sshd-config.sh |
- Make sure the script is set to executable:
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chmod +x /home/root/cygwin-sshd-config.sh
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- Run the script and specify the root account password as an argument, enclose the password in ticks in case special characters are used in the password:
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/home/root/cygwin-sshd-config.sh '<PASSWORD>'
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You should see something similar to the following towards then end of the script output: Panel |
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The CYGWIN sshd service was started successfully. |
Create an SSH key pair on the Management Node and Copy the Public Key to the authorized_keys File on the Windows XP VM
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chmod +x /root/gen-node-key.sh
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Windows IP Configuration Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Autoconfiguration IP Address. . . : 169.254.123.175 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : dcs.mcnc.org IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 152.46.18.179 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.248.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 152.46.23.254 |
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/root/gen-node-key.sh 152.46.18.179
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Follow the steps: Install & Configure Cygwin SSHD
Insert an Imaging Reservation into the VCL Database
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