Unix Putty Tutorial (Setup and Login)


What is Putty?

Putty is a free and open-source terminal emulator, serial console and network file transfer application.
It supports several transfer protocol including SCP, SSH, Telnet, rlogin and raw socket connection.It can also connect to a serial port.
Terminal Emulator is a program that lets us run various Linux command utilities.
Serial Console is connection over serial or RS-232 port that lets one to access computer or network device console, older computers and headless computers also use the serial console as the main way to access the console.
SCP stands for secure copy protocol and is a means of securely transferring files between local host and remote host.It is based on the secure shell protocol(SSH).
SSH stands for secure socket shell is a network protocol which provides administrators a secure way to access remote computers.

Step-to-Step (Putty):

1. Firstly press Windows Key + R and Type \\192.168.4.2 

2. Then go to this location:
    Resource for Students/Software Utility/Putty/putty/ and then copy the putty.exe to any location.

3. Double click on putty.exe





4. Write 192.168.4.3 on Host Name Field, then select SSH option

5. Write any_name on Saved Sessions field

6. Then click on Save button and Lastly click on Open button.

7. Enter your login as (i.e. your Id) and press Enter.

8. Then Enter your Password (Password will not be shown but it is actually typed).

9. Thats all. Enjoy.....
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