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Access Linux from Windows using PuTTY

Access Linux from Windows using PuTTY

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Access Linux from Windows using PuTTY

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- [Instructor] To access the Linux command line remotely from windows. We're going to use a free program called PuTTY. We'll need our Linux host IP address. So go to your virtual machine, open a terminal, and type in 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 the 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 want to make sure that connection type is SSH and I'm going to change the font size to a larger font. Click on 14. Okay. I'll go back and click on Session and let's give this a name. And click on Save. Now I want to click on Open, and type in our username 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 on the Linux host using windows without…

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