PuTTY

An InfoHelp How To...? Guide

PuTTY is a piece of software that allows connection to JCUNet using Securre SHell (SSH). It is for use with Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT computers. Secure SHell allows a program to securely connect to a remote computer. Telnet is an insecure method for connecting to remote computers and direct telnetting to JCUNet from outside the University is not possible.

PuTTY is a very small piece of software that when downloaded from the Australian mirror site, is ready and easy to use.

Using PuTTY to access JCUNet

PuTTY Download site (off-campus site)

More about SSH (off-campus FAQ site)

 

 

Using PuTTY to access JCUNet

Once the putty.exe file has been downloaded, you can double click on it to start PuTTY. You may want to make a shortcut on the desktop to make it easier to start PuTTY.

Start PuTTY and fill in the dialogue box as follows:

Click on the Open button to get to the email/marlin terminal login screen:

Type in your login and password and you should be able to use pine emailer or connect to other JCU servers. Very simple.