The Raspberry Pi, a miniaturized computer provides an ability to complete many tasks on such a small device. In this post, the Raspberry Pi 3B used will be running Raspian as it is the most common free operating system. Sometimes when typing on the command prompt, it may be tedious to do certain tasks typing on the Raspberry Pi and multitasking on other sites. This is where utilizing the Raspberry Pi's SSH allows for users to remotely type on the Pi's command prompt from just a laptop. This provides the ease of multitasking and using the clipboard.
To enable this feature, the preferences in the Raspberry Pi must be changed:
Going to the start menu, and into preferences will show Raspberry Pi configurations button.
Clicking onto that, and going into Interfaces, the SSH must be enabled.
Now the Raspberry Pi has been accommodated to use SSH.
On the computer side, PuTTY must be downloaded from the site https://www.putty.org/.
Click on the here link on that page.
Now this brings you to the available files that can be downloaded. Choose the appropriate file for your operating system, either 32 or 64 bits.
Click the file once it is downloaded to run the installation process.
(In the installation process, a box can be checked to create a desktop icon for PuTTY)
Opening the application will look like this.
Now making sure the Pi is connected to the same network as the computer, look for the Raspberry Pi's IP address. In my scenario, I opened a hot spot which allowed my Raspberry Pi to connect and easily reveal the IP address. In other situation, utilizing a free app called Fing, will allow you to see all the IP addresses of the devices connected to the network.
With the computer hot spot setup, the IP address of the Raspberry Pi will be shown.
Now copy the IP address into the spot that says Host Name (or IP address).
The IP address can be saved with a corresponding name (Raspberry was used above)
Clicking Save will show the session stored underneath Default Settings.
To open the SSH connection, double click on the saved session or click open.
This will be the screen after the connection is opened.
In all Raspberry Pi's there is a default login id and password which is required to connect.
The default id is pi.
The default password is raspberry. (When typing in the password, the password will not show on screen nor move the cursor, so don't be alarmed)
After the connection is established, this is what the final screen should look like. Now you can directly type into the command prompt of the Raspberry Pi from a computer.
