Remote access to windows 7 command prompt

Question

I would like to gain access to a remote windows machine's command prompt from my mac, and in specific from the mac's terminal, the windows machine does not have remote desktop connection at as it is a Windows 7 Home Premium edition. Is there anything that allow me to do this? I am looking for something that is reasonably command-line driven.

I can install software onto the remote machine, to act as an interface, and I have done so with applications like Logmein, but this is quite graphical and I was looking for something that is command-line focused.

Thanks in advance

Solution

Install OpenSSHD for Windows - this will allow remote "console" sessions.

If you looking for something very "unix-like" then you can install cygwin.

http://www.worldgoneweb.com/2011/installing-openssh-on-windows-7/

Comments

[h.l.m]

I tried this, and its not bad! But the end goal was to run R on a windows OS. However have found that the resulting R that is run from the command prompt is a bit different, as it doesn't run the '.Rprofile' file upon starting up. Perhaps it might be to do with the command to run R is 'R --vanilla' when using ssh where as natively the command is just R? Any ideas?

[Dane Balia]

Yes when you login you will need to configure the .sh file you login with to run R with the settings you require, but that's another question you asking. From ssh console you can run anything, you just need to configure it correctly (that is the environment settings)

[h.l.m]

Ok thanks for that, will probable set up another question once I've had a bit of a go at configuring it, do you have any suggestions in terms of potential resources to look at?

[Dane Balia]

I think you need to seperate remote access as a concept from R. SSH allows you in, but R may require certain things to run, not sure what they are as I have never used R. But here is a link that might help you: cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Windows-packages