SSH/SFTP Clients for Windows

• PuTTY SSH client
• X11 Forwarding

PuTTY SSH client

How to use PuTTY ssh client

• If you do not have putty.exe downloaded already, please see How to install.
• Double click putty.exe icon on your desktop.
  
• PuTTY Configuration window will open:
  
• If you have a Saved session for the host you're connecting to,
  • Select the Saved session
  • Click Load
  • Click Open
• If you do not have a Saved session for the host you're connecting to, fill in the following:
  • Fill in Host Name (Example: ugrad.seas.ucla.edu)
  • Select SSH for Protocol
  • Click SSH menu, and select 2 for Preferred SSH protocol version.
  • Enter appropriate name for Saved Sessions (Example: ugrad)
  • Click Save
  • Click Open
• If you do not like the default font and colors, try this:
  • Under PuTTY Configuration Category:Window menu
  • Click Appearance, click Change... button, and try different font
  • Click Colours, and try: Default Foreground, Modify..., Red:40 Green:40: Blue:40 Default Background, Modify..., Red:244 Green:244: Blue:244
  • Click Session, highlight Default Settings or whichever session, Save

How to install putty.exe on your PC

• Download putty.exe from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
• For Windows, click putty.exe, and the following window will show:
  
• Click Save, and save it to your desktop.
• That's all you have to do to install PuTTY.
• You may want to download PSFTP from the same site, but it is not a GUI version.

X11 Forwarding

• You must be running an X server program such as eXceed or X-Win32 on your PC.
• You must have the Tunnel X11 connections option selected:
  • For SSH Secure Shell Client,
    Edit -> Settings... -> Tunneling option check Tunnel X11 connections checkbox
  • For PuTTY,
    PuTTY Configuration Category: SSH Tunnels Menu
    check Enable X11 forwarding
  • Save your settings and restart the SSH client
• Login to the remote host using the SSH client.
• Start the X server program on your PC if it's not already running.
• Run xterm or xclock from SSH Secure Shell, and it should work.
• Note the DISPLAY environment variable will be set automatically, and you shoul not set it yourself on the remote host.