Instructor: In this video,
we will download and install the PuTTY software,
that software you need
to connect only from Windows to Linux machine.
In this entire course,
we will be accessing our Linux machine through the console,
as well as remotely.
And in order to access our Linux machine remotely,
we need to have a PuTTY client on our Windows machine.
Now, once again, if you are using Windows 10
or newer version of operating system,
then you do not have to download or install PuTTY.
All you need is to open up the command prompt
and type it in ssh,
followed by the IP address of your Linux machine.
So if you are confident that you could use the ssh
through the command line on your command prompt,
then you could simply skip this entire lecture
from this point.
Otherwise, let's talk about what is PuTTY
and what is the purpose of using PuTTY.
So PuTTY is a software
which allows you to connect from a Windows system
to a Linux system remotely.
So here is your Windows machine, right,
where you are running your virtualization software, right?
You will go ahead and download and install PuTTY.
And when you run the program PuTTY,
it will open up like that.
Now, you need to provide that PuTTY
the IP address of your Linux machine
so you could connect to it.
So you go to your Linux machine console,
and you pull the IP address.
Then you input this IP address right here
and you click on open,
and it will start or it will connect you
to the command line.
Now, if you are accessing the Linux system from a Mac
and you are a Mac user,
then you do not need
to download and install this PuTTY session.
You're basically trying to access from your Mac
to the Linux machine.
All you have to do is open up a terminal on your Mac.
You could just simply go to your search,
type a terminal and it will open up a terminal window.
Once you have the window open,
you could simply run this command,
ssh minus l, this is a lowercase l,
space, the username that you created on this Linux machine
and the IP address of this Linux machine,
and then you connect to the terminal.
By the way, which we will cover later on
how we could get access to the machine,
how we could pull the IP address of our Linux machine
and connect to it remotely.
All right, so let's go ahead
and download and install our PuTTY client,
only for Windows machine.
All right, so go to your browser,
go to your search engine and type download PuTTY.
Here, go click on the first one.
And right here, it says download PuTTY,
click on download PuTTY
and go to the one
which says right here 64 bit operating system.
I'm sure you are running 64 bit operating system
for your Windows.
Click here, download this MSI file.
It will download, once complete click open.
And it's a warning sign, that's fine.
Click okay, and it will start the installation process.
Click next,
next,
install.
Yes, and finish.
You don't have to read the file, README file.
If you want, you can.
Click finish.
Now, once it is finished,
you could simply go to your search in Windows
and type PuTTY.
And software is going to open up.
That's how you could download and install PuTTY client
for your Windows machine only.