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To connect to a remote machine from a windows machine running ssh:
Note: The first time ssh connects to a particular remote machine, it will display a warning like:
This is to let you know that ssh will save the identity information that polylog1.calpoly.edu has given it. After this initial connection, every time it connects to polylog1 it compares the offered identity information with the saved information to see if some bad guy is impersonating polylog1. (Think of the wolf from Little Red Riding Hood...).
Click "Yes" and continue.
Now that we've covered logging in to a remote machine, we need to talk about transferring files back and forth. In the lab you can keep your files on the Windows server, but if you want to be able to reach them from off campus (or turn them in), you are going to need to be able to transfer them to a publicly visible computer like polylog1.
In the companion program to ssh is sftp which stands for Secure File Transfer Protocol. sftp opens a window that looks like Windows Explorer, except that the files it shows exist on the other machine. To use sftp:
This image shows my home directory on polylog1. (You can't see any ordinary files because all of my files are sorted into various folders.) To look in any particular folder, click on it.
Once you have found the file you are looking for, or the location where you want to put it, you can transfer files from the local machine to the remote machine or vice-versa simply by dragging the file from where it is and dropping it where it's going. The file transfer copies the file so you get a backup in the process.
9/18/02 |