There are multiple ways to create an SSH session from the command line using PuTTY.

The first way involves using the PuTTY program itself. PuTTY comes with a number of options that can be used to invoke the graphical PuTTY terminal from the command line. A description of these options is available within the PuTTY help file. To run PuTTY from the command line:

• Click on the Start Menu and select Run. In the field provided, type in cmd if you are running Windows NT/2000/XP or command if you are running Windows 9x/ME and click on the OK button. This will give you a Windows command prompt.

• From the command prompt, invoke PuTTY using the following syntax:

      putty -ssh [-l user] [user@]hostname  

  Where:

  • user = the account you are trying to access on the remote machine.

  • hostname = the hostname or IP address of the machine you are trying to contact.

  PuTTY also allows you to open a saved session from the command line. To do this, use one of the following arguments at the command line:

      putty -load "session name"        putty @"session name"  

  Where:

  • session name = the name of the saved session. (If the session name contains spaces, it should be surrounded by quotes.

For example, if you want to start PuTTY with a connection to server.example.com as user sshuser, type the following at the Windows command prompt and press Enter:

        C:\>putty -ssh -l sshuser server.example.com  

To start PuTTY with a saved session called "ssh server", type the following at the Windows command prompt and press Enter:

        C:\>putty -load "ssh server"  

After authenticating successfully, you will have a shell prompt on the remote machine.