How to Telnet server using Putty SSH client?

May 15 2009

Posted by Webmasters-central.com as Tutorials

What is Putty?

Putty is a small windows program that is used to connect to your server using SSH or Telnet protocols. It is very small .exe program that need to be downloaded to your computer.

Where to download Putty?

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

Scroll down a bit and download putty.exe file to your computer. Remember the folder where you have downloaded.

How to SSH into server using Putty?

Things You need:

* Your domain name (Like ‘host.yourhost.com’ or ‘ftp.webmasters-central.com’ or ip of the site or server ‘11.111.111.11′)
* Your login and password to that domain. (Your ftp login information)
* Your host has enabled SSH for your web site.

STEP 1:

Open the Putty by double clicking on the icon.

1: Your website name or IP address of your website.

2: Don’t change anything in Port textbox. It will change to ‘22′ automatically once you select ‘SSH’ radio button.

3: Select SSH radio button.

4: Save settings for future use – If you are going to use ssh/telnet to this website frequently, better to save the configuration for that website. So name this session anything you like. Save it by clicking on ‘Save’ button.

5: Once you save, the name goes into the textarea down below screen. When you next time open the Putty, the saved session can be selected, ‘Load’ it and click on ‘Open’ button.

6: Select ‘Only on clean exit’ radio button.

7: Once you are done, click on ‘Open’ button to open your telnet window.

STEP 2:

If this is your first telnet session into this server, you will get a warning screen. Click ‘Yes’ to continue.

1: login as: Type your username to your web host panel. Press ENTER. Your username is sent to your server.

2: Password: You are prompted to enter your password. Enter your password and press ENTER. You can not actually seen anything while you are entering the password.

3: Your last login details.

4: You will end up at ‘command line’. Remember the commandline looks different on different servers. You will see a cursor blinking at the command prompt. I just typed ‘pwd’ command at the command prompt to know where I was. ‘pwd’ means ‘Present Working Directory’. It shows that I am in the root of the web site ‘/home/webmaste’.

Error messages:

* You will see a message like “Shell access in not enabled for your account.” Then you need to contact your webhost and ask them to enable SSH for your account.

* “Network Timeout”. Ask your host that the details you have entered like ip or port number etc are correct.

Author: Radhika (c)
http://www.webmasters-central.com/

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