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Q: I support Windows users who can't/won't learn how to use SSH command-line tools. Can't you make rssh work with WinSCP?

A: Absolutely not. It's not because I think Windows is a crappy operating system that should never be used whenever alternatives exist (though that's basically true)... This ties in with the previous question. WinSCP is a bit of a hack (though a good one -- no offense meant to the author) which provides a GUI front end to command-line ssh tools. It requires that the user be able to run commands through ssh to manipulate the file system. There's already a way to do this... with sftp. In order to make rssh work with WinSCP, I'd have to modify rssh to be able to run a number of other commands. This is, IMO, the wrong approach. Update: Recent versions of WinSCP allow you to use the SFTP protocol. If you use WinSCP with the SFTP protocol, it will work fine with rssh. See the WinSCP documentation for details of configuring it to use the SFTP protocol. If your version of WinSCP does not allow this, download a more recent version. If you want a GUI front end that works with rssh, that I can provide. Or at least tell you where to get it. Check out FileZilla, which is freeware, or SecureFX, which is commercial. Thanks to Paul C. Bryan for providing me with this information. There are also a number of commercial FTP clients that now also support sftp. WS-FTP Pro is one. There are others. Google is your friend.