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Connecting to SSH from Windows

Connecting to SSH from Windows

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Connecting to SSH from Windows

- [Narrator] To access the Linux Command Line remotely from Windows we're going to use a free program called Putty. We'll need a Linux host IP address, so go to your virtual machine, open a terminal, and type if ifconfig. You'll notice that my IP address is 10.3.66.102. You'll want to take note of yours. On the Windows machine open a web browser and browse to Putty.org. Click on download Putty here, scroll down and click on Putty.exe. As soon as it's downloaded click on it. In the Host Name section we're going to type in our IP address. Mine is 10.3.66.102. You'll want to make sure the connection type is SSH and I'm going to change the font size to a larger font. Click on 14, okay, now go back and click on session and let's give this a name. And click on save. Now we'll want to click on open and type in our user name and password. We can make this full screen. Once we're logged in we're free to type in commands. If you want to access files in the Linux host using Windows without…

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