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Raspberry Pi Networking Cookbook

By : Rick Golden
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Raspberry Pi Networking Cookbook

By: Rick Golden

Overview of this book

<p>The Raspberry Pi is more than just a platform for teaching students how to program computers! The recipes in this book show you how this inexpensive computer can be used out of the box for a number of practical solutions that utilize existing networks and connectivity.<br /><br />The Raspberry Pi Networking Cookbook is an essential reference full of practical solutions for use both at home and in the office. Beginning with step-by-step instructions for installation and configuration, this book can either be read from cover to cover or treated as an essential reference companion to your Raspberry Pi.<br /><br />Full of practical and engaging content designed to expand and build upon your existing skills as you work through individual recipes, any computer novice can quickly learn how to become a Raspberry Pi expert without any programming knowledge required. The Raspberry Pi Networking Cookbook will allow you to revolutionize how you use technology on a daily basis, ranging from sharing your media across multiple devices to deploying your very own web portal, or even accessing your desktop remotely.</p>
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Raspberry Pi Networking Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Remote access (PuTTY)


This recipe shows how to create a secure connection to the Raspberry Pi using PuTTY, one of the most commonly used Windows Secure Shell clients.

The PuTTY virtual terminal program is not built into Windows. It must first be downloaded and installed.

This recipe assumes the Raspberry Pi's SSH server has been enabled (see the Configuring remote access (raspi-config) recipe), the IP address of the Raspberry Pi has been discovered (see the previous recipe) and you are now ready to access the Raspberry Pi remotely from a Windows PC using PuTTY.

Once you finish with this recipe, you will be able to remotely administer your Raspberry Pi from a Windows PC.

Getting ready

The following are the ingredients:

  • A Raspberry Pi with a 5V power supply

  • An installed and configured "official" Raspbian Linux SD card

  • A network connection

  • A Windows PC connected to the same network as the Raspberry Pi

  • PuTTY should be downloaded and installed on the Windows PC

For this recipe, there is no need to have...