Nokia E61 SSH Client PuTTY
Hi E61 fans,
I’ve haven’t wrote anything for a long time now, I hope you’ll see more posts from now on! This is a good news!
Ok, today I’m gonna tell you about wonderful application you may install on your Nokia E61!
The application is called “PuTTY for Series S60 v3“ you may download it.
This is a SSH Client for Nokia E61, for those who don’t know what is SSH go: Wikipedia about SSH.
There are a lot of screenshots so be ready for a lot of traffic!
In brief this application allows you to get in to command prompt of your computer where ever it is! It’s very useful if you want to control computer, or get files or control the server, many amazing things you may do thru SSH.
The version I have installed is “PuTTY for Series S60 v3 - Version 1.4 Beta 1, 5 March 2006. Version date is the same as my birthday actually 
Well PuTTY SSH is still beta but works like a charm, I had no problems connecting to my home computer on the other continent thru GPRS and had full control of it.
Installation process is not a problem at all:
Don’t forget to allow untrusted applications install,
in your Tools / Application Manager / Settings
The connection process is various you may use simple Login & Password or you may use a Private Key file which is much better!
In my example I’m using Login and Password, to show you how it works:
Here PuTTY asks you to enter your destination computer host or ip:
Ok, here we asked to enter Login:
Here is password:
So here we are connected to my home computer:
Let’s change font size and toggle the full screen mode:
Here how it looks now, much better, uh?
So, the PuTTY supports both SSH1 and SSH2, there are also many features which I haven’t showed you here, you may try now this awesome application!
Keep it real,
Pasha
P.S. More articles are on the way stay tuned!
When I installed, I kept getting a message that said “Certificate expired” (NOT the UnTrusted message).
I rolled the date on my E61 back a year - it installed. Go figure.
Wizzy | 4:24 am on the 7th of March, 2007
Wizzy, it’s still beta so this crazy stuff may happen, guess it’s just a bug…I didn’t have anything like that!
Pasha | 4:36 am on the 7th of March, 2007
Thought I would document what it takes to get putty to use ssh keys to log in to a Unix server ..
% sudo aptitude install putty-tools # universe repository
On the unix box, create a passwordless key, and put the public part in your authorized_keys
% ssh-keygen -t rsa
Type enter at the passwords, and save the file in “e61″
% cat e61.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
% chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
Convert the private key file to putty format
% puttygen e61 -o putty.ppk
Move that private key file to the E61 - I saved it in C:/System/Apps/putty/putty.ppk
Start up putty, Options / Settings and tools / Authentication
Put in your username, Add the Private key file.
In Options / Settings and tools / Connection, add the host and port
Options / Settings and tools / Save as default
Options / Connection / Connect
Should get you all the way in.
Wizzy | 6:18 am on the 7th of March, 2007
Wizzy man! This is awesome, thx, very useful info missing on my article.
Pasha | 6:20 pm on the 7th of March, 2007
Do i need to enable VPN for connecting to a unix server behinf firewall?
Thanks in advance.
Anand | 10:39 am on the 7th of March, 2007
SSH is a encrypted TCP service which normally connects to port 22!
Which means: You don’t need to enable “VPN” it’s a “VPN” by it self!
I usually “hide” my SSH-service on my (and my customers) servers through a change of the default port 22 in the configfile (/etc/ssh/sshd_config) to something between 1024 and 65535…
And yes you could easily make tunnel/VPN-connection with it!
Of course you need to allow your specific traffic (TCP port) through firewalls you pass…
I think this is the coolest thing to do with the E61 (if only the WLAN worked a bit better on it)!
BTW I don’t think you should fiddle with any Firewalls before you understand what VPN and services like SSH is!!!!
Claes | 3:42 pm on the 7th of March, 2007
I LOVE it - but seriously - does anyone still need SSH1???
macgeek | 8:47 am on the 7th of March, 2007
Claes, what do you mean by “if only the WLAN worked a bit better on it”?
Quinn Comendant | 12:43 pm on the 7th of March, 2007
Any for n95 yet?
Sena | 7:30 am on the 7th of March, 2007
I’ve got it working on N95 with keys setup
It’s a wonderful thing.
Bill | 11:44 am on the 7th of March, 2007
Surely using passwordless SSH keys on a mobile device is a little insecure… Lost phone may equal many tears…
Pingu | 2:32 am on the 7th of March, 2007
Could one not presumably encrypt the private key with a pass phrase which was easier to type on a phone keypad
Wesley | 7:50 am on the 7th of March, 2007