Accessing the Command Line in Puppy Linux

Weirdly, the menu system does not seem to have a way to start up the command-line interface.

There IS an icon on the desktop for it, "Console"

Accessing WD NAS from Puppy

Finally got a SAMBA package to work:

lameSMBqmount

(Info on the settings to get it working to follow)

SSH - Secure Shell remote log-in to the Puppy Linux machine from Windows

Here is the way to do it:

You require a Secure Shell daemon (or server) running on the Puppy Linux box.

For some reason, this seems to be quite immature on Puppy, but here is one:
   http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&id=12005

There is an ssh-gui package in the pet repository, but it does not state anywhere if it is a client or a server or both.   It's set-up options do not make it any clearer.


On the Windows machine, this is then accessed using an SSH client, the preeminent one being PuTTY, available as a free download from  www.putty.org

The initial PuTTY window lets you set up the remote device's IP address, etc.  then brings up the terminal window.

Once the terminal window is open, there seems to be no dialogue box or menu option to change that setting, barring close the PuTTY ssh client app and re-start it.