Remote Access on Windows
Video Tutorial
📺 Video tutorial
If you're more of a visual learner, watch the video walkthrough of this tutorial.
Reference
Definitions table to follow along in this document
| Key Value | Value |
|---|---|
| SSH Key File | cn_node_id |
| Remote IP address of our VPS | 113.113.113.113 |
| SSH Key Pair File Location | Users/.ssh/home/netmet |
| Local System | The system used to access our remote VPS |
| Remote System | The system (VPS) we created in the prior documentation (DO, AWS, or GCP) that we are connecting to |
| [...] | Indicates redacted text and/or information |
REMINDER
We are pretending our remote location (VPS) has an external IP address of 113.113.113.113 and our user name is netmet ⬅️ do not use this!
info
In previous tutorials we downloaded puTTY. We will be returning to this application for the rest of this document. You are free to use whatever terminal emulation program that suites you best.
Connect via Windows
Time to connect to our newly created instance!
Setup Hostname or IP
Start up Putty.exe and in the Host Name (or IP address) place the IP address of your VPS instance.
danger
113.113.113.113 is a fake IP address: Do not use.
Setup TCP port
Set the port (if not already there) to 22
We will save our work for use later, by saving this as a session.
Define session Name
Give it a name that suits your needs and describes this session properly.
Auto Login
Click on the data element from the menu (under Connection).
Enter root in the auto-login option. We will be changing this later.
IMPORTANT
Different cloud providers use different default users to access your VPS for the first time. GCP and DO use root while AWS uses ubuntu. We will use root in our examples... make sure to change this to ubuntu if you are using AWS, or review the documentation for the provider of your choice to determine their default username.
SSH session
Expand the SSH section.
Click Auth under the SSH section under Connection section.
Click on the Browse and navigate to your SSH Key File. Choose the file and make sure it populates into the Private Key box. Optionally you can type the file's full PATH into the box.
Upgrade Notice >0.76
Feature Change
Version > v0.76 updated the SSH private key location to its own separate section.
Persist session definition
Click Session section (top of menu) and click on the Save button. This will persist our session information for later.
Create remote connection
Click Open.
A new window should open, it will attempt to connect into an SSH session with the parameters we specified. The SSH Session should challenge you for a passphrase for the Key Pair file that your VPS was setup with, during the installation.
After successfully entering in that password, you should be connected and have a prompt!
Excellent you are now on your remote system through your local system!