Week 6 - Remote Access

Question 1

What is PuTTY?

Answer 1

Open-source software that enables a user to establish remote desktop connections using various protocols like SSH

Question 2

What’s the default port that the SSH protocol uses?

Answer 2

Port 22

Question 3

How do you start PuTTY from PowerShell?

Answer 3

putty.exe -ssh vanes@ipaddress port#

Question 4

What tool does PuTTY come with? What does it allow us to do? Windows

Answer 4

Plink or PuTTY link

It allows us to establish remote connections from the command line after PuTTY is installed and make remote SSH connections too

Question 5

What does RDP stand for and what does it do in terms of the Windows OS?

Answer 5

RDP = Remote Desktop Protocol

The protocol that allows us to connect to other Windows machines (other OS have compatible RDP clients)

Question 6

What does mstsc.exe stand for? Windows

Answer 6

Microsoft terminal services client

Question 7

What is mstsc.exe used for? Windows

Answer 7

mstsc is used to create the actual RDP connections to remote computers

Question 8

Why is SSH useful?

Answer 8

Allows us to connect to a Linux machine from a Windows Machine

Question 9

What are 3 ways you can start a remote desktop connection on Windows?

Answer 9

1. Command Line (can add /admin for admin privilege upon connection)
2. Search Remote Desktop Connection
3. Run mstsc

Question 10

What is SSH and what does it stand for?

Answer 10

SSH = Secure Shell

SSH is a networking protocol that allows us to establish secure remote connections with computers on an unsecured network

Question 11

What are 4 ways that SSH is used?

Answer 11

1. File Transfer
2. Remote Connections
3. Executing Commands
4. Manage network infrastructure

Question 12

What is Open SSH?

Answer 12

An open-source version of SSH tools, used by Linux and other OS admins for cross-platform remote system management

Question 13

Name the 5 SSH clients that are Windows compatible

Answer 13

PuTTY
SecureCRT
SmarTTY
mRemoteNG
MobaXterm

Question 14

What is the command you use in Linux to copy files between computers on a network?

Answer 14

Secure Copy
scp

Question 15

What’s an example of the secure copy command in use on Linux to transfer the desktop file myfile.txt to cindy?

Answer 15

scp (filename want to transfer) (useracc/hostname want to send to)@IPaddress:

scp /home/cindy/Desktop/myfile.txt cindy@104.131.122.215:

Question 16

How do you transfer files on Windows? What tool do you use?

Answer 16

PuTTY package comes with a tool called Secure Copy Client or pscp.exe

Question 17

What’s an example command of using PuTTY’s secure copy client to transfer the desktop file my_file.txt to cindy’s Linux workstation from Windows?

Answer 17

pscp.exe ~\Desktop\my_file.txt cindy@101.43.11.892:

Question 18

What if you need to share multiple files from Windows? What do you use?

Answer 18

If you need to share multiple files, use shared folders

Question 19

3 steps to sharing folders on Windows?

Answer 19

1. Right click on folder you want to share
2. Hover over “share with”
3. Pick the selected users

Question 20

What are 4 steps to setup access for your folder on another computer? Windows

Answer 20

1. go to “this pc”
2. go to the “computer” tab
3. select map network drive
4. on another computer, can visit folder from the “run” box /computername/foldername

Question 21

When would you need to use the “map network drive” option?

Answer 21

When you want to map your folder to be accessed from the network

Question 22

What command lets you share folders on Windows?

Answer 22

net share

Question 23

Show an example of using the folder share command on Windows to share a folder called ShareMe with everyone, giving them full permissions

Answer 23

net share ShareMe=C:\Users\cindy\Desktop\ShareMe /grant:everyone,full

Question 24

In order to use the net share command on Windows, what do you need to specify in terms of users?

Answer 24

What permissions you want to give which users

Question 25

Besides transferring files, what else does the net share (without attributes) command show us? Windows

Answer 25

Shows us what folders are currently being shared on your computer