Putty is a popular tool to establish connections securely and efficiently from your machine (laptop/desktop) to the remote servers created in your virtual machines.
To know how to setup Putty on your Windows/Mac laptop or desktop, First, you have to download and Install. Please follow the instructions below:
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1. Go to the website: A free SSH and telnet client for Windows and click on Download PuTTY link as shown below to download it on your machine:
![How to setup putty: Step-by-Step Guide](https://dbapostmortem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Putty-Download-step-1-1-1024x289.png)
2.Now under the Alternative binary files, you will see putty.exe file available. Click on the first putty.exe file and you are done.
![How to setup putty: Step-by-Step Guide](https://dbapostmortem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Putty-Download-step-2-1024x247.png)
3. Save the download file wherever you want in your machine:
![How to setup putty: Step-by-Step Guide](https://dbapostmortem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Putty-Download-step-3.png)
4. Double Click on the putty software:
![How to setup putty: Step-by-Step Guide](https://dbapostmortem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Putty-login-step-1-1024x150.png)
5. Congratulations! You have successfully installed Putty in your machine. Now provide the hostname/Ip address on which you want to login:
![setup Putty](https://dbapostmortem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Putty-login-step-2.png)
6. Ignore the putty security alert and accept the same:
![How to setup putty: Step-by-Step Guide](https://dbapostmortem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Putty-login-step-3-1024x601.png)
7. Login with the operating system (OS) username and password:
![How to setup putty: Step-by-Step Guide](https://dbapostmortem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Putty-login-step-4-2-1024x217.png)
Alternatively, you can use another popular client software called “MobaXterm” to access the Oracle database. Please follow my other article Setup MobaXterm for the same.
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