Get Tabs for your PuTTY
It seems like everybody uses the free PuTTY client for accessing SSH from Windows, but the lack of a tabbed interface has kept me using the commercial SecureCRT application for years… until now.
With the PuTTY Connection Manager you can not only use tabs, but also wrap PuTTY in a slick interface. The underlying client is still the same putty.exe that you are used to… in fact the application doesn’t even come bundled with it.
The first time you launch the application you’ll be asked to enter the location to your copy of PuTTY.
And finally, a tabbed version of PuTTY!
The connection manager can be docked to the side by using the little pushpin button.
Right-clicking on a tab or using the Tools menu will allow you to get to the PuTTY menu
In the configuration dialog you can specify a bunch of options including an automatic login macro or passing command line parameters to putty.
You can either click the configuration button above, or choose PuTTY Configuration from the tools menu.
Which brings up the PuTTY Configuration dialog for the actual putty.exe underlying application.
There’s a lot more features to this application that I haven’t gotten to yet… you can even change the theme.
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Wow, I gave up the search for a free tabbed SSH client in Windows years ago. I am glad to see that someone has finally created a decent client that actually uses putty.
What I always do with putty is rename it ssh.exe and put it in c:\windows\system32\ which allows me to just type in ssh user@host and connect to the host.
Thanks for the tip.
Great find but I’m having a problem with it. After closing Putty Connection Manager and restarting it, I get an error about invalidly formatted Registry entries for it’s saved hotkeys. Deleting the registry entries solves the problem until you close and restart it again. Tried turning off hotkeys in the configuration options as well as clearing all of the hotkey entries, but the error persists. Anyone else have this problem?
Great tool i was searching it for years thanks alot…
I get the error message: RUNTIME ERROR Unable to find PuTTY registry key : \\HKCU\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions and Unknown exception occured Main error : Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. Internal error : An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format. (Exception from HRESULT: 0×8007000B) during launch putty conection manager
Planet Malaysia,
Try redownloading putty.exe and running it again and you have to have a valid IP to connect to. Good luck!
Feel free to post your problems on PuTTY Connection Manager forum :
http://puttycm.free.fr/support/forum
Regards.
PuTTY Connection Manager team.
Check this out for another alternative.
http://en.poderosa.org/
In addition to doing tabbed browsing, it also allows you to split ssh windows in multiple different ways (see screenshots) as well as set up cygwin sessions. I’ve been using it for a couple of years. It’s not actively maintained, but it only has one bug that I know of and it’s only a mildly annoying one.
Poderosa rocks. If it were a little less resource hungry it would be perfect client. Splitting windows is unbelievably addictive and you can make cut-paste work same way as in putty.
I tried it out but it keeps crashing on me. I’ve been using wintabber (free) for a year now and it seems to do the job for me. Works fine with putty and other apps as well!
Hi, All
I couldn’t access the website http://puttycm.free.fr, could any friends send me a copy of PuTTY Connection Manager or give me the link to download it.
my email:maowc.zh@gmail.com
thank you!
I am having login macro problem. I set login macro for my connection but this information not passed when i open a session in connection manager. I enable login macro mode as well. Please let me know if i need to change any other configuration.
Wow , this is wonderful
The best part about putty is the easy text selection , which automatically goes into buffer , unlike any other clients in the unix or windows . Now with Tabs in the putty its simply the best
Abhishek sagar
Does anyone know of a forum that helps with using Putty itself?
I am dying for a tab styled SSH client for Linux. PuttyCM is wonderful! Will there be a Linux version, or something similar?
Thank you very much.
Hi,
Can anybody help me to add more than 5 putty sessions in the putty manager????
It goes off when I try to add 6th putty sessions.
Thanks in advance,
Samrat
Try wintabber, it’s a lite window manager that can store putty sesisons, and almost any other window, like cygwin, consoles and others. They’re working on a new version with many extra’s, skinning, putty plugin’s etc.. wintabber and firefox are the only apps I need
I am trying to open a putty session but receive the below error:
Unable to open connection to COM1
Unable to open serial port
I am trying to learn putty. Any advice?
Thanks!
Hi lizzy,
I’m getting the same error (but for COM3). Did you figure it out? I’m able to open the modem using HyperTerminal, but not PuTTY. I’m running Vista x86.
Thanks,
Mark
Both puttyCm and Poderosa crash on my laptop running win xp. But both the tools are great innovation. Thanks, I will try on a different desktop.
unstableme.blogspot.com
@lizzy,Mark:
PuTTY needs admin permissions to connect to serial port
When I start PuTTY sessions from within PuttyCM, the screen in CM goes gray and the actual session starts OUTSIDE PuTTY CM. This happens noi matter how I start the session (quick launch, putty CM, or via a db.)
KDB
This sounds like the cure for all of my lifes problems but It wont start up in windows 7
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I set compatibility modes and started as admin.
I have the same problem exactly.
>>>When I start PuTTY sessions from within PuttyCM, the screen in CM goes gray and the actual session starts OUTSIDE PuTTY CM. This happens noi matter how I start the session (quick launch, putty CM, or via a db.
Brandjoker -
I have admin rights but cpu is not registered in my name- is this the issue?