This really is only just the start of what can do with PuTTY, and there are lots more things. Pretty quickly they will become second nature and you will have even more speed and confidence as you move around your network. You will need to spend some time learning the keyboard shortcuts that I talked about. You can now use the Windows Command Line to connect directly to a SSH host by using this syntax: It works best for SSH devices although it does, kind of support telnet, just not very well. This technique shows a really fast way to get connected to your devices. It just not geek enough, and you need to be hardcore. Spending all your life clicky-clicky on the cute little mousey is just distracting you from the task at the hand. If you spend all day connecting to equpment, you need to get the connection done as fast as possible. YES! Freedom from the mouse! A little review then

So now I can open a DOS box (Ctrl-Escape, R, cmd, Enter – just to remind you again), then type: You need double quotes around the session name if it contains spaces. If these details include a host name, then this option is all you need to make PuTTY start a session. The -load option causes PuTTY to load configuration details out of a saved session. Putty.exe -load “session name” ALRIGHT!!!! In order to start an existing saved session called sessionname, use the -load option (described in section 3.8.3.1). Also, you can specify a protocol, which will override the default protocol (see section 3.8.3.2).įor telnet sessions, the following alternative syntax is supported (this makes PuTTY suitable for use as a URL handler for telnet URLs in web browsers): If this syntax is used, settings are taken from the Default Settings (see section 4.1.2) user overrides these settings if supplied. To start a connection to a server called host: In Section 3.8 of the Help file, cleverly titled “The PuTTY command line” we get the following details. Is strikes me that PuTTY was built by people who are really CLI centric so there would have to be options for doing more. Ahh, the speed and the comfort!! Can you feel that ? But you’re right, I want even less clicking….īUT, I still have to click on grunter and then open with my mouse hand.

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