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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 Install Ubuntu subsystem for Windows on Windows 10]
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* One option is to [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10 install Ubuntu subsystem for Windows on Windows 10]
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* MobaXterm and Putty are also useful.
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* 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 15:43, 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".