How To Use Putty In Windows 2020

To find out whether you need the 64-bit or 32-bit version, open the Windows Search bar, type about, and then click About your PC. Look at the number next to “System type” in the right panel, and download the version that matches that number.

Type the hostname or IP address you want to connect to into the “Host Name” field. A hostname looks like a string of words, like students. harvard. edu. Your IP address is 4 numbers connected together, like 10. 0. 01. SSH is selected by default, which sets the “Port” field to 22. If you need to SSH to a different port, enter that port now. You can select telnet if you just need to test remote port, but avoid using it to log in to a server remotely. Just select telnet and enter the desired port instead. Click Save to create a profile. This makes it so you can quickly select this host in the future.

Some sysadmins tighten security by making you SSH into one server just to SSH into another. If you need to SSH into another server from the one you just logged into, use ssh -l username remotehostname. If you didn’t save a profile, you’ll be prompted to do so now. Click Yes or No when prompted.

If you are prompted to store a key in your cache, type y.

For example, if you want to upload a new HTML file to a folder called www in your home directory, type cd www and press Enter. You can run the pwd command to view files in the remote folder. If the remote file is running a flavor of Unix, use ls to list the files in the folder.

To see a list of files in the current folder, type !dir and press Enter.

For example, if you want to upload a file that’s in your Documents folder, type cd Documents or C:\Users\yourname\Documents. To upload the file to the remote server, type put filename (replacing filename with the file’s real name) and press the Enter key. To download a file, type get filename (replace filename with the actual file name) and press Enter.