Windows Users: Install PuTTY and PSCP

PuTTY is an open source program that will allow Windows users to connect remotely to CS Linux Machines. Linux and MAC users may also install PuTTY, but they likely already have the ability to connect to and transfer files to and from Linux file servers.

These instructions assume that you are working from a Windows 8 or later laptop or computer.

Download and Install PuTTY

  1. Go to putty.org
  2. Download the 64-bit installer file (.msi)
    64-bit version of putty is circled
  3. Run the installer. If you accept all defaults, PuTTY should now be installed in your C:\Program Files folder. This should also update your Windows PATH environment variable.

Create a practice folder on your Windows machine

  1. Launch a Command Prompt window. You should be in your default users directory.
  2. Create a cs400, programs and project directory on your Windows computer.
    3. md cs400\programs\practice

    Note: This command creates cs400 and programs if they didn't already exist.

Use PuTTY to Secure Copy a file to practice

Linux and MAC terminal windows allow you to secure (encrypted) copy a file to or from another workstation without having to first open a connection. The command to do this from a Linux workstation is the scp command. The operation is called a secure copy. However, Window's Command Prompt app does not include this command. Instead, you can use PuTTY's pscp command to peform a secure copy between your Windows computer and a CS Linux workstation.

Windows Users

  1. Navigate to your Windows practice workspace. C:\users\deppeler> cd cs400\programs\practice
  2. Run this command to copy our HelloWorld.java program to your computer.
    3. pscp YOURCSLOGINHERE@best-linux.cs.wisc.edu:/p/course/cs400-deppeler/public/students/HelloWorld.java .

    Note: the period at the end of the above command. It indicates that you wish to copy the file to the current directory.

MAC and Linux Users

  1. Navigate to your practice workspace. /users/deppeler> cd cs400/programs/practice
  2. Run the scp command scp YOURLOGINHERE@best-linux.cs.wisc.edu:/p/course/cs400-deppeler/public/students/HelloWorld.java ~/users/deppeler/cs400/programs/practice