How to access SSH from Nokia S 60 mobile phones(E61, N80, E90, N95)

While you are on the move and you might be desperate to get quick access to your Linux server. There is a cool way to start SSH session right from your mobile phone. Those with a Nokia Symbian 60 mobile phone E series or N series can easily access your computers with an easy to use application - Putty. It is a communications tool, for making connections to other computers. Putty passes the commands you type to that other computer, and it gets the responses from the other computer back to you. The command will depend on the computer you are connecting to and the software it is running.

With Putty on the Nokia Symbian 60 phones you can access all the systems in your network using Wifi or GPRS.

To run Putty on your Nokia S 60 phone you need to install the app on your phone. Putty for S 60 phones such as Nokia E61, N80, E90, N95 is available for free download here

Once you run Putty on your Nokia S 60 mobile phone, it offers a terminal window.  Now the question is how do you access SSH from your Nokia S 60 mobile phone.  Here is how you can start a SSH session right from the command line

Use the command line

putty -ssh host.name

Create a saved session that specifies SSH protocol and start the saved session that specifies the SSH protocol.

Now how to Start the saved session. You can create a Windows shortcut to start the particular saved session. To run a PUTTY session save it under the name mysession. Create the Windows shortcut Putty under the command line \path\name\to\putty.exe -load “mysession”

Note: In case, you know the name of the computer you want to connect to and don’t know the login name or password to use, you should talk to whoever administers that computer