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Distribution: limping along with MD10, Knoppix3.6 : )
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Newbie dunno how to get puTTY working
Fooooooo!
I need to have puTTY for school to hook up to their UNIX machine. I'm using Mandrake 10. I went to the puTTY site, downloaded, untarred, went into the "unix" subdir like they said, typed "make -f Makefile.gtk" and nothing good from there. The Makefile.gtk is in under the "unix" subdir, but my machine doesn't know what to do with it. I get errors saying it doesn't know what to do with the gtk thing or the files that end in .c (I'm sure my machine can to the C compiler thing) and lastly it doesn't like the first file under "Unix" subdir, be_all.c
I don't want/need anything graphical. I just want to be able to log into the machine at school before the next assignment is due (soon!) and hopefully do everything except the internet connecting thru the command line.
I can ftp to my school machine, but that's a Winmachine.
It seems a lot of people here have downloaded/used puTTY; I've never heard of it before starting this UNIX class. What am I doing wrong? What doesn't mandrake have????
thx in advance
gaviidae
I might be mistaken here, but I thought puTTY was a utility to let windows machines make remote ftp transfer of files to unix networks. Mandrake should already have ftp tools installed. To see what you have, open a terminal and enter the command 'apropos ftp', without quotes of course.
Is the school connection supposed to be by telnet or ssh?
From a Linux terminal type:
ssh username@school.edu
Substitute your actual username and school address. You should be prompted for your password.
To telnet from the command line:
telnet school.edu
Distribution: limping along with MD10, Knoppix3.6 : )
Posts: 62
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ssh: command not found (it's not in my $PATH but I don't think it's even in the machine)
telnet: command not found
I kinda went looking for telnet stuff in my machine. I have some stuff called ktelnet.protocol but they aren't anything I can use. Telnet isn't secure enough anyway.
We are supposed to use something like ssh
I know puTTY seems all for windows, but they do have a unix version, without a .confige file or anything. I think it's just source. I'm not really a computer person (yet) which is why I'm taking a UNIX course (it's on Windows machines though, grrr).
On that note, at school we click the start button, go to Powerterm (terminal emulator by ericom), and telnet from there to the UNIX machine.
gaviidae
my question is, how do I Makefile???
Search your install disc for OpenSSH and install it. You'll probably also have to install OpenSSL, which should also be on your install disc. Then try the command that 2damncommon gave.
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