Sean Lynch

So Putty is a program in Windows that you can access your unix terminal from home. It uses SSH in order to access the school’s servers. You want to get putty.exe from the download page. The location is hilighted in grey in the image below:

Otherwise, it’s just putty.exe for Windows in Intel X86.
To run putty, you just click on it, and you will probably get a window that looks like this:

You want to fill in the host name with csc.cpsc.ucalgary.ca or csb.cpsc.ucalgary.ca, and then click “Open”. This is shown on the image below:

Once putty is started, you will get prompted for a username. Enter your CPSC user name, and then you will have a password screen like this:

Putty is a strange beast, and it will show absolutely no characters you type for the password. Do not be alarmed. Just type in your password, and press enter. If you’ve typed it in correctly, you’ll now access to a unix terminal. If not, you may have to enter your user name and password again. The terminal looks like this:

Now you have access to a unix terminal that works virtually the same as the one at school, and you can cd into your directory from there. There is documentation for putty here, in case anyone wants to do more complicated things with Putty like change the background colour, key commands, etc. Only do this if you feel like spending a fair amount of time learning commands to type into the terminal.