

Wait a moment and your X application should pop up in its own window.You may get a window like this popping up, just click ‘Allow’ to let the remote host display the X-windows command (in this case xterm) on your computer The & backgrounds the program so you can still type other commands.Now you can invoke an ‘X-Windows’ command like ‘xterm &’ (or any other you wish).(NOTE: You may get a ‘Security Alert’ window popping up, just click ‘Yes’ and it will save this hostname’s key and won’t ask you again.) Now (and hereafter) double click on the ‘math.bu.edu’ session in the list.And now click ‘Save’ on the right side to save this session ‘math.bu.edu’.Now click on the top entry (Session) on the left hand pane again.Click on the ‘X11’ submenu and check ‘Enable X11 forwarding’.Now go over to the pane at the left to configure the ‘SSH’ options so that you can use Putty together with X-Win32.math.bu.edu) where it says ‘Host Name’ and also enter in the same hostname where it says ‘Saved Sessions’ Once done, double click on it to begin the configuration, by typing in the name of the host (e.g. Now you need to configure the ‘Putty’ application which you can download here, simply copy it to your desktop.You won’t need this, so just click ‘Cancel’ and then verify that X-Win32 is running by looking for the ‘X’ icon in the lower right area of the taskbar.The other window (the one behind) is the X-Config window.The first time you start X-Win32 it will ask for the Activation Code.Once installed, go to the Start menu to run the application.First, download and install the X-Win32 2012 software (you will need to login with your Kerberos password to obtain the software, and don’t forget to copy down the ‘Activation Code’.You can use these steps to easily connect to Linux from Windows and reboot it as per your requirement.Using Putty and X-Win32 to run Unix/Linux Applications In this article, we have learnt how to reboot Linux from putty client installed on Windows machine.

You will need to close that terminal window and start a new session via Putty to log into Linux. So you will need to wait for sometime till your Linux server restarts.Įven after your Linux server restarts, you will not be able to use your old SSH session. In other words, you will not be able to SSH into your Linux server while it is being restarted nor you will be able to run any further commands in your open terminal window. It supports several network protocols, including SCP, SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw socket connection.It can also connect to a serial port.The name 'PuTTY' has no official meaning.

Please note, your SSH connection will terminate immediately after that. PuTTY (/ p t i /) is a free and open-source terminal emulator, serial console and network file transfer application. You will see the message that the server is being restarted. You will be asked to enter your password to execute the command. Once you have logged in, run either of the commands to reboot your system. Please note, in order to be able to reboot Linux system, you need to be logged in as user with root or sudo privileges.
