Configuring Tera Term SSH And Secure FTP

Tera Term SSH

1.	Drop a shortcut for TTSSH.EXE on the appropriate desktop and Start Menu. 
	Run it. 
	Cancel the "New Connection" window that opens by default. 
	Select Setup from the Tera Term toolbar. 
	Choose Windows 
	Name the Window "Tera Term SSH" 
	Choose TCP/IP from the Setup menu. 
	Remove the default hosts. 
	Add all hosts desired (e.g., lewis.econ.duke.edu, godzilla.acpub.duke.edu) 
	Uncheck telnet 

	Optional 
        	Return to Setup menu and select SSH: Authentication 
        	Enter user name and select default, "Use plain password to log in" 

Tera Term SSH is now ready to go. 

Note that when running Tera Term SSH, when connecting to a host that does not have
SSH enabled, the connection will be refused.
In that case, the option for "telnet" should be checked instead of "SSH"
in the initial "New Connection" screen. 


Secure FTP

Tera Term SSH can be run in conjunction with an FTP client to provide a secure FTP
connection to a host with SSH enabled. 

In brief, the Secure Shell connection must be established first, using Tera Term SSH.
Then an FTP session can be directed through the Tera Term SSH pipe. 
Here's how to set it up: 

	Execute TTSSH.EXE 
	Under the Setup menu, select SSH Forwarding 
	Click Add. An SSH Port Forwarding window will open. 
	Leave Forward local port selected. 
	From the dropdown, select ftp (or type it in). 
	Click Add again. This time, select ftp-data 
	Save the setup, using the default teraterm.ini. 

If there is a need for secure ftp connections to multiple hosts, this can be most
easily accomplished by repeating this process, changing the host in SSH Forwarding,
and saving the configuration to a new *.ini file, most easily simply <host>.ini. 

Open a Secure Shell session to a remote host. If you have created multiple *.ini 
files, to invoke the various sessions: 

	cancel the Default connection window, 
	select Setup from the tool menu, 
	select Restore Setup, and 
	select the appropriate *.ini file. 
	Then return to the menu bar, 
        	Select File 
              	Select New Connection, and connect to your session.


FTP CLIENT:

	Open the WS_FTP client. 
	Create a new Session Profile. 
        Type Secure FTP in the Profile Name window. 
        Under Host Name, enter "localhost" without quotation marks. 
	This configuration requires a User ID, (or username/login name). 
	(For cluster machines, either the user should know how to alter this part
	of the configuration for the purposes of the current session, or there
	should be profiles set up for each user.)
	It is not necessary to enter the password. 

	Click on the Advanced tab. 
	Select Passive Transfers, then return to the Session Profile window. 
	Save the new session profile. 

The computer is now configured for Tera Term/SSH and Secure FTP. 
Remember, to enable a Secure FTP session, first open a Tera Term/SSH session to 
the desired host, then open a WS_FTP connection using the Secure FTP profile. 

A Note about Making SSH the default

This software has the annoying habit of resetting to Telnet instead of SSH
at the end of the session, so that when you open it up the next time the button 
is clicked to select Telnet. 

To remedy this, while you have an SSH session in progress, go to the Setup
menu item and select Save setup, then be sure to identify the correct *.ini
file if more than one is configured, before saving.