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Notes for Windows Users Accessing an AWS Cloud Environment
The following notes are specific modifications that have been tested and worked for our group. We cannot guarantee they will work for every Windows system, but following these steps may help with problems Windows users may encounter.
Installing a Terminal Window
MobaXterm is a linux terminal emulator that offers a
standard linux command environment and can support the
display of images from the remote AWS instance on
the local Windows machine. Use of MobaXterm can solve
the problem of users not being able to get displays
of the images from the AWS instance to appear on their
local Windows machine. It may also provide a linux terminal
environment that is easier to use and with a more standard
version of linux than those from the Windows applications
PowerShell or Command Prompt.
- Download MobaXterm: https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/
- Choose: Home Edition (free version)
- Install MobaXterm: Unzip MobaXterm downloaded file
Example filename: MobaXterm_Portable_"version".zip
Ex: MobaXterm_Portable_"version".zip
Using MobaXterm
- Double click on file MobaXterm_Personal_"version".exe (e.g.: MobaXterm_Personal_20.1.exe)
- Click "Run" if Windows queries "Do you want to run this file?"
- Click "Start local terminal" on the MobaXterm widow that appears.
Notes
- With MobaXterm's version of linux, the linux
"forward slash" (/) convention and character in pathnames is used
to specify directories instead of the Windows backslash
(\) convention/character. Thus, when changing to a different
Windows directory via a MobaXterm command line, specify the target
directory as C:/home/user instead of C:\home\user.
Ex: cd C:/home/user
- Key pair setup: If using Windows PowerShell for the linux environment,
to change permissions on your keypair.pem file, use the command "Icacls"
to grant the user full permissions on .pem file as follows:
Icacls filename.pem /Grant user:F
Note using: /G instead of /Grant may result in a message of
"Invalid parameter "/G".
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