Useful things that you can do with putty to access your home Internet connection from work or school.

The putty ssh client allows you to access your home computer over the Internet using ssh; but you can also tunnel past a proxy and access websites using putty. This means that you can access your home Internet connection through a proxy easily. You need to use port 443 in your openssh configuration to enable … Read more

Logging into an Ubuntu Server 12.04 machine over the network with Windows 7 or Vista.

Using the Putty application to log into an Ubuntu server is very easy; simply download Putty from here: PuTTY download site and then run the executable which will be in your Users\Downloads folder in Windows 7. Then enter the IP address and port used by SSH on the remote server. The default is 22. Then … Read more