PuTTY, Exceed, SSH

• PuTTY

PuTTY is in fact a suite of programs (see the help available within PuTTY for details) and these are all available via the command line. The main application (just called puTTY) creates a terminal window and establishes a connection to a remote host.

On PPD Windows 7 desktop systems PuTTy is available from the Start Menu. -> All Programs -> General Utilities -> PuTTy. It is also available by typing PuTTy at the command prompt.

Setting up a PuTTY profile for accessing the PPD Linux servers

The section describes how to use configure PuTTy so that you can create an X session using the ssh protocol.

To start PuTTy on one of the PPD desktop Windows clones just type the command "PuTTy" at the command prompt. This will produce a window similar to the one below. The first configuration changes are to specify the SSH protocol and the host name to which you will want to connect (these have already been done in the image below):



The next step is to click on the 'Connection' then 'Data' category on the Putty screen, and fill in the username you will use on the remote system: An example is shown below:



Next click on the 'SSH' 'X11' configuration panel and select the "Enable X11 forwarding" check-box:



Next select the 'SSH' configuration panel. Here specify the preferred SSH protocol version (2) and the remote command that will be executed on the remote system. In this case shown the remote command will launch an X session with the KDE window manager:



Alternative commands that you may find useful are:

Yo can also download one of our preconfigured profiles here:

xterm profile

twm profile

kde session profile

gnome session profile

Failsafe xterm profile profile

default type of session profile profile

Or you can download all profiles in a one file:

All profiles