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Asked by Mark

Hello my name is Mark Perreault. I am just beginning college and am a computer science major. I am very new to everything and a friend said that I need experience, suggesting that I design a Linux server. I have a Pentium 4 computer system around and downloaded a copy of Ubuntu 6 server edition. I was wondering if and how I can access it from a windows PC or if it would be better to install desktop versions of ubuntu on the other PC's. I hope after some more time programming that I can make a contribution towards future projects that you have. Thank you for your time.

Mark

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Jim Hutchinson (jphutch) said : 		#1

What, exactly, is your objective? You can ssh into the ubuntu server from windows using putty. Or you could run a web server. A file share server could be mounted with samba. So, yeah, you can access it but I guess you need to decide what it's function will be first.

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Mark (mper08) said : 		#2

Thanks Jim Hutchinson, that solved my question.

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Mark (mper08) said : 		#3

That actually helped me

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Mark (mper08) said : 		#4

Sorry about the last two posts I accidentally clicled the wrong button. I currently have secure shell on my computer from school use and was wondering how i would use it to access my ubuntu server. Thanks

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Jim Hutchinson (jphutch) said : 		#5

We are talking about access from a windows box, right? If so, install putty and then start a session. I don't use this much but from what I remember you fill in the IP and click the ssh radio button. I think thats about all. Click connect and you will get a terminal window and you should see the login prompt provided the server has openssh-server running, isn't behind any firewalls or anything that would prevent a connection. Then just log in. You will have remote terminal session running. I'm not a 100% sure about all the putty stuff but that should get you started.

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