Best Shell program to use?

[Talk2Me]

any recommend on which shell/telnet program to use (for windows) to access my account which sits on a unix host? i need to chmod a lot of files. thank you!

[HarborNetworks]

If you are using cPanel on your server, you will need an ssh program. I recommend one found at http://www.ssh.org. As far as telnet, use the one built into windows.

Go to Start
Run
telnet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (or domain name)

[phi]

PuTTY:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

[kk]

Yes, we always recommend putty to our customers.

[eHostSpace]

A simple putty will do.

[HarborNetworks]

Never used putty :P

[ProWebUK]

i also agree, PUTTY

[PHPGeek2k3]

i agree with putty thats the software i use when working with linux / unix shell. You may also telnet into a server using putty along with other protocols that are supported

Thanks
- James

[InteractAsia]

another thumbs up for putty..a small program but effective

[flumps]

I too agree with putty, small programe but works really well always highly recomended