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Using SSH to Connect to Container

Linux If you are managing a Hardware Node with the Linux operating system installed, you can use Secure Shell (ssh) to remotely connect to the Container you are operating and work inside its directory tree using standard Linux command line tools. To connect to the Container by ssh, you should make sure that:

  1. You are launching Parallels Power Panel in Internet Explorer 5.0 or above. SSH connection to the Container is supported by other browsers only if you have a Java Virtual Machine on your computer.
  2. The Container is running. If it is not, start it on the Start/Stop Container page.

Note: If the Container you are managing resides on a Hardware Node running Windows 2003 Server, please turn to the Using Remote Desktop Connection to Access Container section to learn to manage a Container by means of the Remote Desktop Protocol.

The SSH Connection window is opened upon clicking on the Terminal Login icon on the Parallels Power Panel menu. You are presented with the Login and Password fields where you should enter the relevant information (root or any other user name you might have created for this Container and this user's password) to be passed to the ssh server inside the Container.

After you have filled in these two fields, click the Login button. If you are doing this for the first time, your browser may display a window like this asking you to install additional components:

Installing ActiveX SSH Client

Note: When SSH-connecting to your Container using a browser other than Internet Explorer, this window does not appear. The SSH connection through browsers on the Mozilla engine is provided by the Java technology.

Click Yes in this window and wait for the ssh terminal window to appear, whereupon you get connected to the Container and may start sending commands to it via ssh.

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