ssh and you?

[Mallachar]

Right now I just installed open ssh because i was told its a great thing to have for remote controlling my machine if I am at work on my windows system. My question is, how on earth do I acess my machine from my windows machine now that its installed? i did sudo apt-get ssh and thats about all so far...

[coffee412]

Putty is the choice I guess for that.

I use it now and again for a windows machine.

[tjwoosta]

Start here
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSH

Make sure to follow the links under the resources section, its important stuff.

That will get your server setup.

As for connecting to it from your windows machine I agree about putty

[Mallachar]

Thanks a lot for the help guys, got it set up, and I can now connect to it from my work machine. Thanks!

[seawolf167]

I don't know if this is still an issue, but DNS lookup for SSH used to make authentication take a very long time, if you notice a delay and don't need DNS, edit the config file and add this line:

gedit /etc/ssh/sshd_config

add the line

UseDNS no

at the bottom of the file, save & exit, the restart ssh

sudo service sshd restart

[HermanAB]

Use Cygwin if you want to run Linux graphical programs remotely from Windows.