

To open a connection to the remote machine, click on ‘Open’.

Any time you reopen PuTTY, you can click on your named connection in the list and click ‘Load’ to load in your saved settings. Return to the main menu screen by selecting ‘Session’ on the left pane and click on ‘Save’ to save the changes (there should be an entry for your particular connection in the ‘Saved Sessions’ list).Make sure that the ‘Enable X11 forwarding’ checkbox is ticked (this will enable graphical interfaces to programs). Now, on the left pane, navigate to the Connection – SSH – X11 menu.Enter a name in the ‘Saved Sessions’ box to refer to this connection (for future use) and then press the Save button.

In this example we will use the details of the ‘HIE-Storage’ machine, i.e.
