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Connecting to GAUL (Windows)

Installing and Configuring PuTTY


To connect to the GAUL network, you will need a program capable of establishing a Secure Shell (SSH)connection. PuTTY is a popular, free package that allows you to establish SSH connections to remote servers, allowing you to remotely execute commands on them from your own system. PuTTY is a stand-alone program, which means it does not have to be installed. To use it, you simply download it, and run it. This section will demonstrate how to download and run this program on your Windows system.

At the time of this writing, PuTTY was available at:
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html

Creating a PuTTY Profile

Creating a profile in PuTTY that will allow you to login to the GAUL network in the future whenever you need to work remotely on a server in the network.


Initiating a connection:


If you need to reset your Western password, please see https://wts.uwo.ca/identity/passwords/password_management_tools/resetpw.html