In this video, we will learn how we could access our Linux system.
All right.
So there are two types of access or two different ways that you could access your operating system.
One is through the console and the second one is through remote.
So the console access is like a direct access to an operating system when it is connected through VGA,
cable, HDMI, DVI or any other console or display cable.
So you have your computer right in front of you.
You connect a monitor and then you run the cable from the monitor to your computer, which has an operating
system.
And that's how you access that operating system.
That type of access is called console access.
So if you are using Windows operating system, then you console will look like this.
If you're using MAC operating system, then your console, when you're connected and you're looking
at the monitor, that's how it's going to look like.
Now if you are using Linux, which we have installed and configured, then accessing Linux is going
to look like this.
Now of course, we are using that as a virtual machine.
So virtual machine provides its own console access.
So if you had installed Linux on a physical machine, then you would have accessed it the same way by
connecting the cable to the monitor and then you will go to the console.
All right.
So that's a very basic, as usual way of accessing your Linux system.
Now let's talk about the remote access.
Now, please note most of the time that when you're going to be working in corporate environment, you
will be accessing your Linux system remotely.
So the second type of access is remote access, which allows you to connect to your operating system
remotely over the network.
So if you want to connect a Windows machine from remotely from another Windows machine, then the machine
that you are trying to connect to, you've got to have its IP address.
Once you find the IP address, you input the IP address of your source machine and then simply connect.
Then it will allow you to connect to that other Windows machine.
That's how you connect your Windows machine remotely.
Now, what about the Mac OS?
Mac OS similarly has the same type of software where you allow sharing and connect the MAC OS remotely.
Now let's talk about the Linux, which is our main focus here.
How do we connect Linux remotely?
So first thing is, if you are connecting to your Linux machine from a Windows machine, then your Windows
machine has to have a client called putty p u t y, which you have to download and install.
Once you have that downloaded and installed, then you get an IP address of your Linux machine.
You enter the IP address right here in this field and then you load and open and then it will allow
you to connect to your Linux machine remotely through the command line.
Yes.
Remember that you won't be able to see the gooey the the console.
You will be able to connect as a command line.
Now, if you are using a mac and you want to connect to your Linux machine remotely, then you do not.
I repeat, you do not need this putty client.
All you need is simply open up your command line and type such space the IP address of your linux machine.
Also, I put it down here.
If you already have a Linux machine and you're trying to connect to your another Linux machine remotely,
you would do the same thing.
You open up a command prompt type SSH space, the IP address of the Linux machine that you're trying
to connect to.
So this is the second way of accessing Linux system.
First is if you are connecting through console direct access.
Second, if you are connecting over the network and menu connecting over the network, then you need
some type of client or protocol to connect to your destination machine.