【My Study Note】Remote Connections on Window
Remote Connections on Window
What is PuTTY?
PuTTY is a free, open-source software that you can use to make remote connections through several network protocols including SSH. You can visit PuTTY website to download the entire software package with a Microsoft installer.
How to use PuTTY?
Once you’ve downloaded and installed PuTTY, you can use it by launching the GUI. A window will appear showing you the basic options for your connection.
Make a note of the hostname, port, and connection type options. By default, the port is set to 22, the default port the SSH protocol uses, and the connection type is set to SSH. All you need to do is type in the hostname or IP address of the computer you want to connect to. Then, click Open to start up a new SSH session.
Alternative way to download PuTTY
Running PuTTY from the GUI isn’t your only option. You could also use it on the command line. Open up PowerShell prompt and type out the application name like this:
Putty.exe -ssh Naoya@104.31.122.232 22| Naoya@104.31.122.232 | user name and IP address |
| 22 | port number |
What is Plink?
PuTTY also comes with a tool called Plink or PuTTY Link, which is built into the command line after PuTTY is installed. You can use Plink to make remote SSH connections too.
SSH
SSH can be super useful especially if you want to connect from a computer running Windows to a Linux-based operating system running remotely.
RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol)
Microsoft actually provides another way to connect to other Windows computers called the RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol). They’re also RDP clients for Linux and OS X too. Like RealVNC and Microsoft RDP on Mac.
RDP provides users with a graphical user interface to remote computers. Provided when the remote computer has enabled incoming RDP connections.
mstsc (Microsoft Terminal Services Client)
This is used to create RDP connections to remote computers.
You can enable remote connections on your computer by opening up the Start menu, right-clicking on “this PC”, then selecting Properties. From there, select Remote settings, and then pick an option from the remote desktop portion of the panel.
There are some security implications that come with allowing people to remotely connect to your computer. You should only let users whom you trust do this.
Typically, in an industry setting, these settings are usually set by the system administrator for the company’s computers that connect to the network. Once you’ve allowed connections on the remote computer and provided you’re on the list of users allowed to access it, you can use the Remote Desktop Protocol client mstsc.exe to connect to it from anywhere else on the network.