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Re: Using a local proxy with putty fails immediately

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On 27 Jan 2012 13:43:48 +0000 (GMT), Jacob Nevins
<jacobn@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:

> pk <pk@pk.invalid> writes:
> >c:\windows\system32\plink.exe
>  [...]
> >For what it's worth, this is a 64-bit windows 7 running in a KVM virtual
> >machine. Are there known issues with some of that?
> 
> I suspect that your choice of location for plink.exe is likely to be
> your problem.
> 
> On 64-bit Windows, the system32 directory is intended for 64-bit
> programs. If you put 32-bit programs (such as putty.exe or plink.exe) in
> there, they may have problems due to the way the Windows 32-bit
> compatibility stuff works.
> 
> (I don't know why running plink.exe works for you from the command-line,
> as my information about the system32 directory is second-hand, so I
> don't know what the nature of the problems you'll run into are.)
> 
> If you desperately want to put programs from the PuTTY suite in a
> Windows system directory on 64-bit Windows, the right place is probably
> c\windows\syswow64 ; better still to put them somewhere else.

Thank you! That was indeed the problem. I moved it to another location and
it worked immediately. I wish I found that mentioned in some of the many
pages I read while trying to debug this.

Thanks again.

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Using a local proxy with putty fails immediately pk <pk@pk.invalid> - 2012-01-26 12:45 +0100
  Re: Using a local proxy with putty fails immediately Jacob Nevins <jacobn@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2012-01-27 11:55 +0000
    Re: Using a local proxy with putty fails immediately pk <pk@pk.invalid> - 2012-01-27 13:28 +0100
      Re: Using a local proxy with putty fails immediately Jacob Nevins <jacobn@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2012-01-27 13:43 +0000
        Re: Using a local proxy with putty fails immediately pk <pk@pk.invalid> - 2012-01-27 16:18 +0100
          Re: Using a local proxy with putty fails immediately Jacob Nevins <jacobn@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2012-01-30 11:51 +0000
            Re: Using a local proxy with putty fails immediately pk <pk@pk.invalid> - 2012-01-30 13:13 +0100
        Re: Using a local proxy with putty fails immediately Owen Dunn <owend@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2012-01-28 11:00 +0000

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