• Software Needed
• Logging in to a Unix Machine
• Copying Files to a Unix Machine
• Accessing a Unix Machine Using the UMB Wireless Network
• Copying to the Clipboard in putty.exe
• Pasting from the Clipboard in putt.exe

Software Needed

• To login in to a Unix machine on the Computer Science Department network ...
• you will need an SSH client for Windows
• SSH stands for secure shell
• it a protocol that allows a user to create a secure connection to a remote Unix machine
• There are several SSH clients for Windows ...
• but I recommend putty.exe ...
• is part of the PuTTY open source project
• You can downloaded this putty.exe here
• To copy files to, or get files from, a remote Unix machine ...
• you need a Windows SCP client
• SCP stands for secure copy
• A nice scp client for Windows is FileZilla ...
• which you can download here

Logging in to a Unix Machine

• Run putty.exe which will bring up this window

• In the Host name box enter pe15.cs.umb.edu

• Click the Open button
• The first time you do this, you will see this

• If you see this, click the Yes button
• You will now see a window in which you can type Unix commands

• but first you must enter your Unix username ...
• and hit Enter
• When you do, you will be prompted for your password

• Now type your Unix password ...
• and hit Enter
• You are now logged into pe15 ...
• and are in your home directory

• When you have finished your work, type exit

• This will end you Unix session ...
• and close the Putty window

Copying Files to a Unix Machine

• To copy files to and from a Unix machine ...
• use FileZilla
• You will find instructions on how to do this here

Accessing a Unix Machine Using the UMB Wireless Network

• If you are connected to the UMB Wireless network ...
• you can use both both of the programs mentioned above the same way you do from home

Copying to the Clipboard in putty.exe

• Hold down the left mouse button and drag over the text you want to copy to the clipboard
• When you release the left mouse button the text will be copied to the clipboard

Pasting from the Clipboard in putt.exe

• Copy text into the Clipboard from some file
• Open putty.exe
• Place the cursor where you want the text to appear
• Right click the mouse to paste the Clipboard text at the insertion point