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Windows is not a UNIX or UNIX-like operating system, so there are extra steps to interfacing a Windows computer with our servers. | Windows is not a UNIX or UNIX-like operating system, so there are extra steps to interfacing a Windows computer with our servers. | ||
| − | * [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10 | + | * One option is to [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10 install Ubuntu subsystem for Windows on Windows 10] |
| + | * MobaXterm and Putty are also useful. | ||
| + | * Note that it's common for a Linux operating system to appear to mount the main Windows filesystem under /drives, usually /drives/c/, and within /drives/c directories and filenames observe such Windows conventions as capitalizing (e.g.) "Users" and "Documents". | ||
Revision as of 14:43, 29 January 2019
Windows is not a UNIX or UNIX-like operating system, so there are extra steps to interfacing a Windows computer with our servers.
- One option is to install Ubuntu subsystem for Windows on Windows 10
- MobaXterm and Putty are also useful.
- Note that it's common for a Linux operating system to appear to mount the main Windows filesystem under /drives, usually /drives/c/, and within /drives/c directories and filenames observe such Windows conventions as capitalizing (e.g.) "Users" and "Documents".
