Thank you Stephano for your straight answer to my enquiry,
here in the General Discussion forum (Discussions about contribs.org,
Linux in general, and other topics that don't belong in the other forums.),
on an aspect derived from some earlier discussion of an apparently hijacked topic.
To tie this part of the thread specifically to SME the reason
for my interest is that to obtain SME server to M$ workstation
rsync (and similar) functionality needs something like CYGWIN
running on the win box. CYGWIN crashed my W2kPRO box. I've
now moved that workstation from W2kPRO to W7/64bit and
am interested whether I might be able to resurrect any of my
older projects to install specific workflow tasks between the
connection of my SME server and occasional M$ workstation.
Charlie, I can readily agree that PuTTY and its PAGEANT
authentication agent works brilliantly on my W7/64bit
workstation connecting to SME without apparent issue.