*** STWingCS PuTTY HOWTO ***


INTRODUCTION

The purpose of this HOWTO is to show you how to set up and use the PuTTY SSH
Clent to connect to STWingCS servers.


REQUIREMENTS

Desktop computer running Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP


SETUP

1. Obtain putty.exe by downloading it from: 
http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty.exe

2. click on the putty.exe executable's icon and a configuration dialog will pop up:
        a. set the "Hostname" to force.stwing.upenn.edu
        b. set the "Protocol" to SSH
        c. go to the Connection - SSH tab (last one in the column on the left)
        d. click the Enable Compression check box
        e. under "Preferred SSH Version" click "2"
        f. under "Preferred Crypto Algorothm" click "3DES"
        g. go back to the top tab (the one you started in at the very top of
           the column on the left)
        h. go to the "Saved Sessions" box and type "force.stwing.upenn.edu"
           into the Session name field, and click save

3. close putty


USAGE

Click on the putty.exe executable's icon.  Then, in the new dialog box, click
on force.stwing.upenn.edu in the Saved Sessions box and click on "Load".  Then
click the open button in the lower left corner.

(optional) To make connecting more convient, make a shortcut to putty.exe
and in it's properties, and " @force.stwing.upenn.edu" (or whatever you called
your session) to the end of the command line, the shortcut will start the
session automatically.


REFERENCES

PuTTY Homepage: 

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

For general information of the STWingCS setup or basic UNIX shell commands:

http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/computing/faqs/general.php


CREDITS

Written by Stephen Richter <richters@stwing.upenn.edu>. Copyright 2002.