Introduction¶

This document describes how to set up SSH and SFTP clients on your computer. The principal reason for your doing this is so that you can update pages on the Department’s web server. You can always obtain the latest version of this document from: http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/comp/ac024/

On the PWF¶

If you are using a PWF computer—Winows or Mac—the necessary software is already installed. See FIXME for information about how to use it.

On Mac OS X¶

SSH and SFTP come as standard with Mac OS X. Open the Finder:

Open Applications

Open Terminal

At the command prompt say something of the general form:

ssh -l username hostname

The character after the dash is a lowercase l for leather. See FIXME for detailed instructions about connecting from a Mac to the Department’s web server using SSH.

Although you can use SFTP for file transfer from this command prompt, doing so requires some understanding of Unix. It is therefore easier to download and install the free SFTP GUI Fugu to transfer files between your Macintosh and the Department’s web server. Fugu can be obtained from http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/fugu/download.html

Download the disc image, mount it, and copy the Fugu executable to your Applications directory. Double-click Fugu to begin an SFTP session. See FIXME for detailed instructions about connecting from a Mac to the Department’s web server using SFTP.

On Windows¶

In order to do SSH from a Windows host you will need a copy of the Free PuTTY suite which can be downloaded from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

In order to do SFTP or SCP from a Windows host you will need the Free utulity WinSCP which can be downloaded from http://winscp.net/eng/download.php