====== Connecting to a Linux computer using SSH from a Windows computer (text mode interface) ======

Open your web browser and navigate to the PuTTY client download website here:

[[http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html|PuTTY client download website]]

Click on "putty.exe" to download the PuTTY client to your download folder.

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Open your download folder and double-click **putty.exe**:

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Windows will pop up the following dialog to ask you whether you trust the application you just downloaded from the PuTTY website, click **Run**:

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The main window of the PuTTY client will open and show a dialog to configure a new session upon first start: 

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Use "Saved Sessions" to name this session for later reference, type the name of the computer you want to connect to into the field "Host Name (or IP address)" (login.physik.fu-berlin.de in this case), click **Save**:

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In the left hand side of the PuTTY window, click **Translation** below the item **Window** and make sure **Remote character set** is set to **UTF-8**, then click **Open** to make a connection:

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You will be asked whether you trust the remote host, click **Yes**. This dialog will be shown upon the first connection only:

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A terminal will open and ask for your username and password, your login should complete successfully:

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