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voidmain:
How do you set what up? Putty? If you just want to know how to install Putty you go to http://www.openssh.org/windows.html and download putty.exe and copy it into a directory on your PC (in your PATH, like C:\WINDOWS).

[ November 18, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

Master of Reality:
i've been talkin to fiends at school, and a lot of them hat microsoft and windows. Some of them wish they had macs but luckily there is a few of us that use Linux there (not just me) and some of the people are wanting to switch to Linux.

I shall direct them here probly to get some help.

Siplus:
no, i know how to install putty, but what do i have to do to my linux system to let him connect to my computer? a server or something? i really don't know..maybe i don't have to do anything, all i want to know (right now) is how can my friend have a 'shell' accound on my computer right now (i guess that's what you'd call it)

voidmain:
It's probably already set up. All you need to do is have "sshd" turned on. Drop to a command prompt and type "ssh localhost" and if you get a login prompt you are all set. As long as you are not behind a firewall you friend should be able to connect to your machine via putty (or any other SSH client).

Master of Reality:
you must have the ssh server running.
do a ps -e and see if there is "sshd" running.

then ya gotta add a user for your fiend:
useradd friend -m
passwd friend
enter frineds pass:

then he can connect to your computer using putty... put i dont think he will be able to see the GUI (graphic user interface) with putty, only the commandline

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