Sorry, I thought I did. Anyway.

There are two servers running the application. One of them is a Windows 2000 server, the other is a Windows 2003 server. These are capable of running the Net::Telnet module, and use that for all of their access and parsing.

They can run ssh using plink.

The solaris server is simply being used in this case as an SSH helper. Because I could not get SSH working on the two windows servers in a timely fashion, I opened a telnet session to the solaris server, and issued commands to open SSH sessions from the Solaris server. This has the effect of letting all of my parsing code use the Net::Telnet functions, without having to also recode all of them to use Net::SSH::Perl, or perhaps Net::SSH::W32perl

I will eventually take the Solaris server out of the equation, once I get the SSH modules working on the windows platforms. Until then, I was hoping for a faster temporary solution.

Also, I have not been able to get permission to allow the windows boxes to have an exception to the requirement to use SSH only on the solaris server.

Thanks again for any help you might provide