How To Make puTTY Automatically Load a Session
The most awesome emulator of all time, puTTY.exe, just got even easier to use. Along with loggiong automatically into a SSH session add the Windows shortcut that loads a saved session and launches it, now you have one click shell access to your Linux host from your Windows PC.
Here’s how:
- Download puTTY.exe
- Save it to the folder C:\puTTY\
- Open a Windows Explorer window in C:\puTTY\
- Run puTTY.exe once, and create a “saved session”, making note of what you name it. My example below uses the name my neatly named Saved Session
- Right-click-drag puTTY.exe and drop it next to itself, this creates a shortcut to the .exe file.
- Right-click the shortcut you just created, on the popup menu click Properties.
- In the Target box, add -load “your-saved-session-name” after C:\putty\putty.exe
- The final content in the target box should look like:
C:\putty\putty.exe -load "my neatly named Saved Session"
- Save the shortcut. Viola! Move or copy this shortcut anywhere you like (e.g. your Desktop, your QuickLaunch toolbar, your custom explorer toolbar, etc.) and you have 1-click access to a command prompt on your Linux / Unix host.
Enjoy!
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This post was written by Content Curator on December 5, 2009