Comments on: SSH with Putty

By: karouf

karouf — Wed, 21 May 2008 09:35:50 +0000

Using a liveCD or even a VM on Windows just to be able to use SSH sounds like overkill to me…

By: SIGHUP

SIGHUP — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:44:39 +0000

There isn’t always the option of running a live CD. Especially at campus workstations where some labs might only use WINXP. So it has its moments.

I use it all the time to tunnel ftp/gnump3d/other on my slack box.

By: Laurent

Laurent — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:04:20 +0000

I hope that, unlike me, you can install applications on your workstation. Good luck.

http://chim0.blogspot.com/2006/08/ssh-with-putty-through-proxies.html

By: Laurent

Laurent — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:46:46 +0000

Hi, i have the same probleme, if you found a solution before me…please share it
Thanks

By: Meneer R

Meneer R — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 14:37:30 +0000

1- using putty on linux makes no sense. I can graphically log in to my system using ssh port forwarding, which i specify by default in my Xinit script. My ssh-drivers are mounted as normal drives in my fstab. None of this is required or works with putty. Putty is a windows program. Yes, there is a linux port. But it only exists to fool idiots, i’m sure. SSH support is pretty much built-in.

2- using putty on windows makes more sense, but is still akward. Why even use windows for this scenario? Just use a live-cd, or run some mini-distro using virtualization.

By: Joe Salinas

Joe Salinas — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:11:15 +0000

I work in a company which requires ISA Proxy Server authentication.
Tried the proxy option as explained here, without luck. PUTTY always complains:

“Proxy error: 407 Proxy Authentication Required (ISA server requires authentication to fulfill the request.Access to Web Proxy service is denied”

I tried both authentication by and bypassing Windows Domain with similar results. Perhaps something is missing when configuring the proxy access for ISA servers.

Kind of puzzled now. Suggestions are most welcomed.

By: Andrew M

Andrew M — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:29:25 +0000

Wintabber sounds good, but even better get your multiple screens using GNU Screen. Screen runs on the server and creates resumable named sessions, each with multiple named, nestable ’screens’. If you have to log off, your session will continue running on the server.

http://del.icio.us/andmalc/screen

By: mark

mark — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:17:43 +0000

If I’m on a PC where I don’t have the ability to install applications, then I’ll use whatever ssh client is there.

I have run PuTTY on Linux. It’s an easy way to set up SSH tunnel sessions that I use a lot. I have also set up scripts to do the same thing, either way works. With PuTTY, I can put the name of the tunnel to show as the window title, so that makes it easy to identify which tunnel is open. You can do similar things with other terminals, so again, it’s just personal preference.