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.
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...