HI Nick, i am struggling to get ssh (or ssh2) connection from windows client. I have been trying for more than 3 days but not able to get it work. Can you please share the complete script, utilities you used and the steps you had to perform to get right keys (server and client). I know i am asking for too much but i am really stuck here. using the info from this post, i get "Authentication failed: Permission denied" error. thanks amit