Running 10.10 on my server. Running XP on the client.
Periodically transfer a file from XP to the server box via batch script
Normally I wouldn't notice, but since XP opens an annoying command
window, which (a) gets in the way; and (b) grabs cursor control from
whatever I am doing on the XP box, the execution time is apparent. The
annoying command line window stays up quite a while so I investigated to
see if I could find out why. Running the transfer manually I saw that
both ftp and scp take about 5 seconds to log in (the time from the
initial request to password prompt). This is too slow.

The question: How can I speed this up. The server is not heavily
loaded. top does not indicate anything suspicious. Seems to me that
this transfer used to be lightning fast but now is slow and annoying. I
am pretty sure that the problem is on the Ubuntu side but it could be on
XP - XP tools are, well . . . you know.

Alternate question: how can I get ssh/ftp/scp whatever, to run from a
script without the annoying command line window showing up and getting
in the way. I know this really an XP question, but it's worth a shot.

Ideas anyone?